6 Week test.2 Flashcards
non-fiction deals with real people, real experiences, and real ideas
true
Fiction deals with imaginary characters and events
true
some purposes of non-fiction are: to entertain, to inform, to explain, or to persuade
true
non- fiction writers often use description to paint a mental picture for the reader
true
non-fiction writers often use narration to tell about a series of events
true
non-fiction writers often use exposition to change people’s ideas or actions
false
an essay is a piece of poetic writing that gives a lengthy explanation of a topic
false
an essay is usually written from a very formal point of view
false
the word essay came from a french expression meaning I try
true
essays are usually about a dozen topics which are called standardized topics
false
a writer’s style deals with the way he or she uses language and arranges their ideas
true
one should ask how elements of style work together to convey the author’s meaning
true
it is often a good habit to read an essay more than once
true
in some essays, the author will use evidence to support his or her ideas
true
an essay about a difficult time as a girl adapting to a new culture
santha rau
compared a warm Christmas to a cold Christmas
Jeanne Houston
describes the development of her career as a writer
Sandra Cisneros
her mother’s death and how the family reacted to it
dorothy west
described its writer’s experience with foods and showed how her attitude became more mature
Brenda Peterson
praised Rachel Carson for her book on improving the environment
Geoffrey Norman
describes the beauties and the dangers of the Mississippi River
Mark Twain
described the gradual death of a tree and what resulted later
Edward Teale
his terrible work situation as a boy
Charles Dickens
compared an ignorant boy with an informed adult who now loved his culture
Harry Petrakis
uses chronological order and spatial progress, and then describes emptiness and usefulness
the Death of a Tree
uses an anecdote, an allusion to a fairy tale, personal experiences, and allusion again
straw into gold
uses a problem, one who helped address the issue, a solution, a quotation from a book
The flight of rachel carson
uses a gift to introduce the topic, gives many personal experiences, and repeats its theme
growing up game
uses a family situation, realizations, and something still mysterious
my mother, rachel west
uses an analogy comparing reading a river to reading a book
Life on the mississippi
uses a powerful personal experience and then compares it to past personal experiences
a taste of snow
uses description of a workplace, description of strong feelings, and description of various food shops
dickens’ autobiography
uses a name change, an explanation, some cultural differences, and recalls the name again
by any other name
uses an incident of a boy with an adult and later tells how the adult had influenced him
a whole nation and a people
Peterson grew up eating
wild game
when peterson ate a hamburger she felt
disappointed
when one really thinks about the eating of game and the sacrifice involved, they also think about their own
mortality
Peterson’s father once refused to eat
a pet lamb
Rachel West was a mother who was
domineering
Rachel West was a person who
laughed much
loved children
never gave up without trying
Rachel West died with
her secrets
the child confronted snow with
twirling and dancing
In California, people on Christmas Day
showed off their gifts
Rau and her sister went to a school run by
the British
The only new thing that Santha learned was about
an apple
Premila was offended because her teacher said that
Indians cheated
With what was Barba Nikos hit on the cheek?
a plum
To pay for his crime, the boy had to work
for 5 hours
the grocer linked various foods to people such as
Alexander the Great
Achilles
Zeus
What food did the author remember 30 years later that the grocer had given to him as a gift?
figs
What was done in the name of public health to rid places of insects
airplanes sprayed deadly chemicals to kill them
the name of Rachel Carson’s book was
Silent Spring
it took carson _____ to write the book and it had _______ pages of sources
4 years
50
What birds began to flourish again after Carson’s book
the pelicans
the death of a tree
starts at the top from the outside
the person who actually cut the tree down was
the writer’s grandfather
for a great tree death comes as a gradual transformation is
the thesis
cisneros was challenged by her french friends to make
tortillas
what did cisneros inherit from her father
a love of wandering and a sappy heart
an important event in cisneros’ family was
moving into a permanent home
with a little ______, the straw of one’s experiences can be spun into gold
imagination
the place where Dickens worked
blacking warehouse
2 boys who worked with Dickens
Bob and Paul
Dickens said that he spent most of his income on
food
Who did Dickens resent for wanting him to continue his job rather than go to school?
his mother
when twain learned the language of the river
he lost the ability to see the river’s beauty
what group of people did Twain pity
doctors
a brief story about an interesting or humorous incident
anecdote
talking about an object as if it were a living person
personification
an extended point-by-point comparison between two things
analogy
the attitude a writer takes toward his subject and how is it revealed
tone
by diction or choice of words
the title of a page or section is always centered
true
a period comes before the parenthesis that indicates the source
f
when one cites a book, the page number should also be put in the parenthesis
t
the entries on the works cited page should be numbered
f
the second and third lines of entries on the work cited page should be indented
t
