Figurative Language
What is a reference that alludes to a historical figure, event, or literature?
Allusion
What genre is where someone writes a text about themselves?
Autobiography
What is the tone of "The Journey"?
Hopeful
Which character in Of Mice and Men, wants to kill Candy's dog?
Why does he want to kill it?
The dog stinks up the bunkhouse AND the dog is old and in pain.
What term means ordering events from the beginning to the end?
Chronological
What is the repetition of vowel sounds?
Assonance
Genre
What is the tone of "12"?
Excitement
What is Queen Bess mainly remembered for?
What is a hint in a passage that suggests future events?
Foreshadowing
Which literary device below is the best choice for the line below?
For years we lived with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
Personification
An _______________ is a first-person account of an author’s own life from childhood to the time the text was written. It generally covers facts about the author’s public and private life, often in chronological order. Because it is a life story, the text is usually written later in the subject’s life.
Autobiography
What is the tone of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"?
Peaceful but unsettling
What is the meaning of vivid in the passage below.
The flight lasted just a few minutes, but so many of the details are rich and vivid to me.
Easy to remember
Detailed
Clear
What is a memory that takes the character back to a different time period?
Flashback
What does the below passage reflect as the main type of figurative language?
“He shall not hear the bittern cry
In the wild sky, where he is lain
Nor voices of the sweeter birds
Above the wailing of the rain.”
Assonance
A ____________ is a text written about a person by someone else. The subject is usually a historical or public figure. The author must conduct extensive research and then interpret and analyze the information. This kind of text is written in the third person and often employ a chronological text structure.
Biography
Which poem discussed discovery the most in its lines?
"12"
Explain why the setting of Of Mice and Men is important to the continuation of the story.
The setting is rural California; transportation was limited, and the work options were limited as well due to the Great Depression and Dust Bowl.
This caused many people to move West for work. The isolated setting causes the characters in the story to be desperate and lonely.
Sight, smells, sounds, touch, taste
Imagery
Which figurative language is reflected in the passage below?
A young couple is too poor to buy each other Christmas gifts. The man sells his pocket watch to buy his wife a set of combs for her long, beautiful hair. She, meanwhile, cuts off her beautiful hair and sells it to a wig-maker for money to buy her husband a watch-chain.
Irony
___________ are texts written about events, ideas, or individuals that appear in newspapers, magazines, academic journals, reference books, and on the Internet. This text is research-based, meaning that they include information from reliable sources. They often include specialized vocabulary, statistics, and graphic features such as photographs, charts, and graphs. The author’s purpose determines the text structure.
Article
Which poem discussed determination the most?
"The Journey"
Explain each part of RACE.
Explain HOW each part of RACE connects to the previous part.
R: Restate question. This provides the writer with an academic topic sentence that is clear and provides the correct informaiton.
A: Answer the question. This connects to R because the writer will clearly answer the initial question.
C: Cite evidence. This connects to A so that the writer can provide textual evidence to correctly support their answer.
E: Explain the quote/evidence. This connects to C because the writer needs to explain and provide commentary about HOW the quote supports the evidence.
The practice of giving animal characteristics to non-animal subjects, such as people, objects, or ideas
Zoomorphism