Ms. Lifson 101
Ms. Lifson's first name
What is Sarah?
Words that aurally sound like the things they describe
What is Onomatopoeia?
What the FLE is not
What is the five paragraph essay?
The audience of a personal essay
Who is a non-critical stranger who has made the choice to read your essay?
This 18th century writer is known for her feminist leanings that can be found in her most famous novel: Pride and Prejudice
Who is Jane Austen?
Ms. Lifson's rank in her sibling order
What is the oldest?
A thought or phrase in a line of a poem that does not come to an end at the line break, but moves over to the next line
What is enjambment?
The first step in FLE writing
The most common personal essay writing tool
What is description?
Lenny and George are two good friends in this classic
What is Of Mice and Men?
The school where Ms. Lifson completed her student teaching
What is Stuyvesant High School?
The formula of a metaphor with an explanation of its variables.
What is "A is B" where B gives us insight and more information about A
The purpose of a FLE
What is--to share an interesting reading of the text. To convince your reader that your analysis of the text is correct and useful?
The personal essay writing tool that involves a "how-to" list
What is process analysis?
The little prince in Antoine de St. Exupery's The Little Prince befriends this type of animal
What is a fox?
The specific field of Ms. Lifson's previous profession
What is modern dance?
This accomplished imagist poet wrote "In a Station of a Metro":
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Who is Ezra Pound?
The three factors of a successful thesis
What are:
1. One cohesive idea
2. An interpretation
3. Evidence-worthy
The class exercise we completed in class to build personal essay writing skills.
What is the exercise when we were assigned to write about whether we hate or love zoom class just with description?
The name of the second oldest sister from Louisa May Alcott's most famous classic novel.
What is Jo?
Ms. Lifson's favorite, current, television series that is also a book series
What is His Dark Materials?
In "Harlem," Langston Hughes compares this to festering like a sore.
What is "a dream deferred"?
The parts of a FLE quote sandwich
What are the top bun, lettuce, meat, middle bun, lettuce, meat, bottom bun, and extra bun
The title of the student essay that we spent the most time with
What is "Emo for Emu"?
The title of the 19th century classic that we are going to read this year.
What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?