Vocabulary
Without courage or confidence
What is timid?
Hints in the surrounding text that the reader can use to determine the meaning of a word
What are context clues?
The city the story takes place in
What is Chicago?
"She rises against the sun like a skyscraper" is this type of figurative language
What is a simile?
This is the state where Susan's mother grew up
What is South Dakota?
State of being fully-grown and developed
What is maturity?
Determining the meaning of a word based on how it is like something else in the text
What is comparison?
She is the author of this autobiographical essay
Who is Susan Power?
"I am a little girl lifting a sleek black river into the light that streams through the kitchen window." is an example of this type of figurative language
What is a metaphor?
The buckskin dress at the museum belongs to this person
Who is Susan's great grandmother?
To get something one believes they deserve, such as attention or respect
What is command?
Determining the meaning of a word based on how it is unlike something else in the text
What is contrast?
This is the thing that Susan's mother compares herself to at the natural history museum
What is the buffalo?
"I show my mom the city she gave me. I call her home." is an example of this type of figurative language
What is personification?
This is what Susan's mother had removed (be specific)
What is the statue of the Indian man about to kill the white woman and her family?
Land that was reserved or set aside for an Indigenous nation by agreement or treaty with the United States government
What is a reservation?
The explanation of a word's meaning before or after the word appears, usually set off by a comma
What is definition?
This is what Susan's mother has as a keepsake in her dresser drawer
What is her braid?
"My thin brown braids will reach the middle of my back, and in maturity will look like tiny garden snakes." is an example of this type of figurative language
What is a simile?
This is an object that provides information about the culture of its creators or users
What is a cultural artifact?
Being an essential or necessary component or characteristic
What is integral?
The use of the word as the result of something else that happens in the text
What is cause-and-effect?
This is the name of the reservation in South Dakota that Susan's mother came from
What is Standing Rock?
"I am her small shadow and witness." is an example of this type of figurative language
What is a metaphor?
This is the detail Susan believes is integral to the recitation of her mother's life
What is leaving the reservation/her home at 16 years old?