Unit 4 The Fight for Freedom Unit test review

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What is mood?

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The feeling the reader gets from the story

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What is a historical fiction story?

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A story that is made up but based on real historical events

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What does 'floor show' mean in the sentence: "I would march around the New York apartment, wearing pink-flowered pajamas and his major’s cap, and he would laugh and tell me I was the best floor show in town."?

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a series of musical or dance acts by professional performers

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Allusion

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When the author refers to something well known in their writing

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Conviction (in the context of the paragraph: “Because that’s the way sky is,” I whispered to her. “Sky is all over, not just at the top.” But my voice trailed and made it more a question than a conviction.)

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A strong statement

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What is imagery?

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When the author uses sensory details to paint a picture in the reader's mind

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Which sentence from the selection contains enough context clues to help determine the definition of the underlined word?
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1. It was true, I knew, that in the faraway part of the countryside where the sky and hills met, the colors were unclear.
2. There was his uniform: deep khaki and glamorously foreign.
3. My sister, too sophisticated at seven to provide a floor show, glowered.
4. Elizabeth was me; but what were perceptions: kinds of mountains or trees?

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My sister, too sophisticated at seven to provide a floor show, glowered.

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Autobiography

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A story written about a person's life by that person

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Which text structure gives you an example of something that happened and then what happened because of it?

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Cause and Effect

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Memoir

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A narrative composed from personal experience