Final Part 2 - Short Stories Flashcards
Be able to answer the following questions - Cosby and MLK
When Bill Cosby writes that he was “hoping that a football would hit me
before a Chevrolet did,” to what is he referring?
he would catch a football before he got hit by a car
Why could Bill Cosby not catch passes with “the easy grace” of his
heroes?
he was short and thin his hands were to small to catch the ball
In “Go Deep to the Sewer,” what game does Cosby say is most closely
related to stickball?
baseball
When Cosby says that “the narrow fields of those football games
allowed almost no lateral movement,” what does lateral mean?
sideways
What is Cosby’s main purpose in “Go Deep Into the Sewer?
Remembering is friends and the games he played while growing up
In front of which building in Washington, D.C., did Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech in August 1963?
Lincoln memorial
In his speech, what does King remind his own people?
remind America of the fierce urgency of now, no time to cool off or move slowly
Define parallelism and be able to identify an example of parallelism in
King’s speech.
repletion of a phrase in the beginning of a sentence, ‘‘I have a dream’’ 8x
When King tells his audience, “Let us not wallow in the valley of
despair,” what is he urging them to do?
don’t feel sorry for yourself the time for action is now
What was King’s persuasive purpose in “I Have a Dream”?
that he wants all of his people equal
