Vocab Around the Classroom
A short amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
What is an anecdote?
In the book, "Harvesting Hope," this is where the book begins and where Cesar Chavez is born.
What is Arizona?
"The snow blanketed the earth," is an example of this kind of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
Before you introduce the quotation, you have to have this.
What is a comma?
"21 years ago, this last Sept., on a lonely stretch of railroad track paralleling U.S. Highway 101 near Salinas, 32 Bracero farm workers lost their lives in a tragic accident. The Braceros had been imported from Mexico to work on California farms. They died when their bus, which was converted from a flatbed truck, drove in front of a freight train." Chavez begins with this rhetorical device at the beginning of his speech.
What is an anecdote?
A statement that presents the opposing viewpoint or argument to a given claim. You made of of these in your argumentative paper.
The movement that he started for farm workers was called, "La Causa," which translates to this.
What is The Cause?
"I'm so hungry, I could eat the shingles off the roof." is an example of this Figurative Language.
What is hyperbole?
If a quotation is not split or separated, don't close this until the speaker is finished.
What is the quotation?
It is the rhetorical device used in this sections of Chavez's speech, "... The very fact of our existence forces an entire industry, unionized and non-unionized, to spend millions of dollars year after year on increased wages, on improved working conditions, and on benefits for workers. If we were so weak and unsuccessful, why do the growers continue to fight us with such passion?"
What is a Rhetorical Question?
The main idea or argument in a piece of writing.
What is a central claim.
What are grapes?
"Break a Leg," "By the skin of your teeth," and, "that's a piece of cake," are all figurative language that are called this.
What is an idiom?
This is what you do to the first word inside the quotation.
What is capitalize?
According to Chavez, "There are now 1.1 million Spanish-surnamed registered voters in California..." This is the definition of, "surname," according to the work book?
What is the family or last name?
"I came. I saw. I conquered," is an example of this.
What is parallelism?
What is the National Farmworkers Association?
Samples of this read like a comic book: Bam! Oof! KAPOW! OUCH!
What is Onomatopoeia?
Mr. Funni said "quotation marks can be fun"!
It is what is missing and it correct about this sentence.
What is a comma after said and the exclamation mark is inside the last quotation mark?
"...we have made progress in overcoming child labor, in overcoming miserable wages and working conditions, in overcoming sexual harassment of women workers, in overcoming discrimination in employment, in overcoming dangerous pesticides..."
Chavez uses this kind of Figurative Language here.
What is parallelism?
Examples of this are: Citing facts & statistics, Prove that they (the speaker) are credible, Appealing to the moral sense or the feelings of the audience, or Acknowledging the counterclaim.
What are Rhetorical Devices?
According to Chavez, "__________________ takes more guts."
What is nonviolence?
Samples of this read like a comic book. You just heard this answer, however it is also an example of this bit of figurative language.
What is a simile?
“Enough about pizza." "I am so sick of hearing about pizza." "All you do is talk about pizza all day long,” John whined.
What is there can only be one set of quotation marks for this sentence?
According to Chavez, in 1982, these people gave Deukmejian one million dollars to run for governor of California. When he took office, Deukmejian paid back his debt to them with appointees who fell on their side of the law.
Who are the growers in California?