As I Walked Out One Summer Morning
This word describes the shape of Laurie Lee's mother's hand.
Gnarled
A sentence with one clause.
Simple sentence
The author of Long Walk to Freedom.
Nelson Mandela
A word that means the same as another word.
What is a synonym
Great Zimbabwe is located in this continent
Africa
The poet who wrote I, Too.
Langston Hughes
In Laurie Lee’s extract, this word means certain to happen.
inevitable
Laurie Lee left home in this year.
1934
This word from Laurie Lee’s extract means moving towards home.
Homing
Laurie Lee left home to do this.
Discover the world / go on a journey
A sentence with a main clause and at least one dependent clause.
Complex sentence
This word means southern African grassland.
Veld
A combination of words that seem to contradict each other.
Oxymoron
This industry is the subject of "A Brief History of Bollywood."
Indian Film Industry
In the poem, the speaker is sent to eat in this room.
This Laurie Lee vocabulary word describes someone who is too proud of themselves.
Vain-glorious
Nelson Mandela says the hills above this place were dotted with large smooth rocks.
Qunu
In Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela says he learned to catch fish using twine and sharpened pieces of this material.
Wire
This city was Laurie Lee's intended destination.
London
A sentence with two independent clauses of equal importance.
compound sentence
Mandela became skilled at this fighting activity.
Stick fighting
"Honeyed squalor" is an example of this language feature.
Oxymoron
This word means the arrival or beginning of something.
Advent
The speaker says one day he will sit here.
In Long Walk to Freedom, this word means necessary or very important.
Essential
Great Zimbabwe was once the capital of this type of powerful state.
Kingdom
According to the Great Zimbabwe extract, there is no evidence that the stone buildings had this.
Roof/roof work built in stone
This word means a thick sweet liquid and appears in the glossary.
Treacle
A sentence containing independent and dependent clauses.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
The Xhosa people had an almost ______ attachment to cattle.
Mystical
This term means a writer's personality and style in writing.
This word means profitable or making a lot of money.
Lucrative
Autobiographical writing tells about this type of experience.
Personal
In the Bollywood text, this word describes something that comes from questionable or suspicious sources.
This singer was known as the “nightingale of India” in the Bollywood text.
Lata Mangeshkar
In autobiographical writing, the textbook says you can begin by explaining this before telling the story of the experience.
Exponentially
When Laurie Lee was finally alone, he said he was "________ by freedom."
"None came. I was free." is an example of this sentence type.
Simple sentence?
As a child, Mandela enjoyed this natural environment.
The veld / the countryside
According to the textbook, readers should think about this when analysing word choice.
What is the effect of the word / why the writer chose it?
This 1931 film brought sound to Indian cinema.
Alam Ara
The textbook says autobiographical writing should usually use this point of view.
First person (I/we)
In the Bollywood text, this word means a lack or shortage of something.
dearth
According to the textbook, Langston Hughes became a leader of this intellectual and cultural revival.
Harlem Renaissance
In “I, Too,” the speaker says no one will dare do this “tomorrow.”
What does he really mean by this?
Tell him to eat in the kitchen.
one day he will no longer accept being treated as less important or excluded because of his race.
one day, he will be treated equally.