Figurative Language
A comparison using like or as
simile
In a story, the people in the story are called
characters
The conflict in "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push" involved the father feeling ___________ because of the accident which left the boy in a ______________
guilty wheelchair
One theme of "This is What Courage Looks Like" is that sometimes doing the ________________ is hard.
right thing
You can only have ____________ in class to eat or drink unless a teacher gives you something else.
water
Giving something not a person human-like characteristics
personification
life
One ____________ in the story is that things are better if you work ________________
theme together
In "Heart on Ice," he used __________ when he said he wore his heart on his sleeve.
imagery/idiom/hyperbole
You should ________________ all your papers at least until the end of the quarter and you are told to ______
throw them out/get rid of them
Alliteration is the same sound at the _____ of a word
beginning
The conflict, or problem between main characters, drives the story toward the ___________ where the conflict is almost wrapped up.
climax
Malcolm X's chapter called "Saved" showed that ____________ can change a person's life.
education/ learning
In "I, Too," by Langston _______________, the table is a metaphor for ______________
Bessie Coleman had to go to France to learn to be a pilot because she couldn't go to school here because she ____
Black and female
A group of lines in poetry - like a paragraph in prose
stanza
Theme is universal and does not tell about specific _____________ or ____________ in the story.
characters events/plot
It was ironic that Malcolm X said he was never as ____________ as he was in prison because you would expect someone to feel ___________ in prison.
free trapped/stuck/locked in
In "Mother to Son," _________________ used the metaphor of a _________________ to show how hard her life was because she described it as full of ____________
Hughes staircase splinters
Making an ___________ is when you pull something from the text and put it with what you already know to figure out a new idea.
inference
Structure of poetry includes stanzas, line length, and ___________ space
White or empty space
When you cite evidence, you have to tell where you got the idea or you are guilty of __________
plagiarism
Claudette Colvin is important because she made history by not ____________________ and getting arrested for it, even though she was only 15. She did that before ________________
giving up her seat on the bus Rosa Parks
The genre of "Dare to Dream" is _______________ (one of our vocabulary words)
historical fiction
The way a poem is put together is the __________
structure