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Organization
Plot Against People
Leaves Turn Color
Clay Are We Created
100
Another word for "reason for writing."
What is purpose?
100
This is the organization that Ackerman used to inform about leaves changing and falling.
What is cause and effect?
100
The essay is mainly about what in life?
What annoyances or nuisances?
100
Diane Ackerman had these two purposes in her writing.
What is to inform and to explain?
100
This disaster leads to Azucena becoming trapped.
What is a volcanic eruption?
200
Another word for "author's attitude."
What is tone?
200
This the organization used when describing similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
200
The author says that objects either don't work, break, or this.
What is get lost?
200
Leaves stop producing this when they don't get enough nourishment.
What is chlorophyll?
200
This is the reason the little girl becomes "the symbol of tragedy."
What is she is trapped up to her neck by the mud.
300
Another word for "word choice."
What is diction?
300
This is the organization used to show the progression of events and time in "And of Clay Are We Created."
What is chronological?
300
This is the tone that Baker took on in his essay.
What is humorous?
300
These are the two processes that Ackerman informs about in the essay.
What are why the leaves turn colors and why they fall?
300
This is the author's former job, a fact that helps us understand her perspective.
What is a journalist or reporter?
400
Another word for "arrangement of words and sentences."
What is syntax?
400
Russel Baker used this type of organization when he split his writing and objects into three different categories.
What is classification?
400
This is the type of syntax that Baker uses in his essay.
What is long, complicated, scientific, etc?
400
Ackerman primarily used this literary device to make her writing interesting.
What is imagery or figurative language?
400
Rolf Carle spent part of his childhood in this terrible place.
What is a concentration camp?
500
Another word for "author's viewpoint."
What is perspective?
500
This is the technical term for what Rolf Carle has that interrupts the flow of organization toward the end of the story.
What is a flashback?
500
This is the literary device that Baker used to describe how the objects get lost.
What is personification?
500
Ackerman's tone toward fall can best be described as this.
What is admiring or positive?
500
The author had a negative perspective of the political figures and the media for this reason.
What is, she felt like they were aware of and exploiting the disaster, but not doing anything to really help the people who needed it.