Maya angelou, i know why the caged bird sings
barbara kingsolver, "life without go-go boots"
mark twain, "uncle john's farm"
eudora welty, "eavesdropping"

select one of the readings in this unit and in at least one hundred words, discuss how the writer uses his or her theme for one of the following purposes: to aid us in understanding a person, culture, or historical period; to reveal what the writer has learned; or to teach us something. identify the theme and purpose.
select one of the readings in this unit and in at least one hundred words, discuss how immediacy, foreshadowing, and commentary work to show author's purpose, meaning, or tone and style.
select one of the allusions in this unit and in at least seventy-five words, discuss how the author uses it.
in at least one hundred words, discuss how a humorous tone or satire can be a good way to make a serious point. use selections from "life without go-go boots" and "uncle john's farm" to support your explanation.
select one of the readings in this unit and in at least 150 words, discuss the author's use of figurative language, also known as figures of speech, literary devices, and rhetorical devices. identify and discuss the explicit and implicit meaning of at least three kinds of figures of speech.
select one of the readings, except "hope, despair and memory," and in at least one hundred words, discuss the writer's usage of contradiction, paradox, or antithesis. be sure to define the terms and quote the text to support your reasoning.
select a quote from one of the autobiographies, memoirs, or personal essays in this unit that show ethos, logos, and pathos (one quote for each). in at least 150 words, define your terms and explain why the given term is an example of its rhetorical strategy.
select one of the readings in this unit, except the gettysburg address, and in at least 150 words, discuss the historical context or cultural context the author demonstrates.
select one of the readings in this unit and in at least one hundred words, discuss how the author uses parallelism and repetition.
write three sentences:
one that uses conjunctive adverbs
one that uses subordinating adverbs
one that uses correlatives
use the list of readings to complete each prompt