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Nonfiction
Vocabulary
Speeches
"Gettysburg Address"
"I Have a Dream"
100
Biography, an essay, and a speech are three examples of this.
What are nonfiction genres?
100
"Statement of belief or principles"
What is a creed?
100
This is used in speeches because it enables speakers to make their ideas memorable.
What is repetition?
100
He wrote the "Gettysburg Address".
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
He wrote "I Have a Dream".
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr?
200
This is an account of a person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
200
He is Miss C's dog.
Who is Tonka?
200
This is the mascot of the Browne Middle School.
What is the bulldog?
200
This is the reason why Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
What is to dedicate part of the battlefield as a cemetery?
200
King uses the phrase "Let freedom ring" from this song.
What is "America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)"?
300
This is the writer's most important message of the entire text.
What is the main idea?
300
"give importance to, or pay special attention to"
What is emphasize?
300
Both Lincoln and King use the phrase "all men are created equal" from this document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This is the event that Lincoln was referencing when he said "four score and seven years ago".
What is the year the U.S. became a new nation?
300
"A place or thing offering relief"
What is an oasis?
400
The purpose of this writing is the inform you about a topic.
What is a formal essay?
400
"In a manner that is excellent or heroic"
What is nobly?
400
This is the part of the nation of which Abraham Lincoln was President.
What is the Union?
400
This is the war during which the Battle of Gettysburg was fought.
What is the Civil War?
400
This is the amount of people who attended the Civil Rights Movement in Washington, D.C. the day King gave his speech.
What is 200,000 Americans?
500
The three things that are needed in order for statements to be logical.
What are reasons, evidence, and examples?
500
"take away from"/"make less important"
What is detract?
500
"We will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together"
What is parallelism?
500
Abraham Lincoln wrote this before he wrote the Gettysburg Address.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This is what you call the act of a political leader who is murdered.
What is assassination?