Finish the Line
The revolution will _____
Not be televised
I, Too
Who is Langston Hughes?
Using exaggeration to add more power to what you’re saying, often to an unrealistic or unlikely degree.
What is a hyperbole?
Keyomn
Monkey
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, ____
I'll rise.
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
words that represent sounds, with pronunciations similar to those sounds.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Cation
Action
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by
The Bluest Eye
Who is Toni Morrison?
a figure of speech that compares two different things to show their similarities by insisting that they’re the same.
metaphor
Remain
airmen, marine
"Hope is the thing with_____"
Feathers
We Real Cool
Gwendolyn Brooks
refers to writing that invokes the reader’s senses with descriptive word choice to create a more vivid and realistic recreation of the scene in their mind.
Imagery
Gelnju
Jungle
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
combines two contradictory words to give them a deeper and more poetic meaning.
What is oxymoron?
Castor
What is Actors?