Literary Terms
What is a rhetorical question?
A question asked for emphasis, but not mean to be answered
Latin root -rect-?
Right or straight
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What was the first text we read in this unit?
Declaration of Independence
What was the essential question of this unit?
What role does individualism play in American society?
What is diction?
Word choice
Latin root -ject-?
To throw
What kind of text is Manzanar?
Who often took air baths while writing?
Benjamin Franklin
Where did Emily Dickinson live?
Amherst, MA
What is syntax?
Latin root -sanct-?
Holy
Where did Papa spend the first year of the war?
At Fort Lincoln
Which famous first lady said, "remember the ladies"?
Abigail Adams
What did Ralph Waldo Emerson believe about a person's relationship with nature?
It changes depending on mood
What is parallelism?
Repeated grammatical structure
Latin prefix super-?
Up or above
When did Manzanar close?
1945
Which founding text uses enumeration?
The Bill of Rights
Who was famous for writing free verse poems?
Walt Whitman
What is onomatopoeia?
Words that sound like their meaning
What does the Latin suffix -ity do?
Change an adjective into an abstract noun
Who was the president when the interned Japanese-Americans received reparations?
Ronald Reagan
Why did Lincoln give the Gettysburg address?
To consecrate a burial ground
Why does Thoreau say, "Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton,3 and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh."