ELA Regents

Foreshadow

• Literary elements

• Your side of the argument

• A hint into what will happen later

• Authors intention

Figurative Language are

• A way to persuade

• Authors tone in a story

• Literary Elements

• Quotes

Rhetorical device

• Lesson learned

• Growth

• Conflict

• A way to persuade/invoke emotions

Characterization

• A guess

• Problem with character

• Is another word for conflict

• Characters looks, acts, and changes

Imagery

• Foreshadowing for readers

• Central Idea in a story

• Conflict within a character

• Details that paint a picture

The speaker's use of symbolism in lines 10 and 11 serves to represent the:

• achievement of peace

• destruction of nature

• loss of cultural identity

• arrival of new leadership

The details in lines 16 and 17 contribute to the speaker's purpose by:

• presenting a resolution to the conflict

• indicating a reason for the meeting

• emphasizing the need for caution

• explaining the terms of the treaty

Which statement best clarifies the sentence in lines 8 through 10?

• "We dispense with the usual formality of having your speech again read" (line 5)

• "In the Genesee country we live happy and no one molests us" (line 26)

• "But if he should think the old one valid....we are also willing" (lines 37 and 38)

• "If the President..thinks proper to have it continue as heretofore, we shall not be very uneasy" (lines 40 and 41)

The speaker's attitude in lines 37 and 42 can best be described as:

• uncertain

• compassionate

• sarcastic

• cooperative

Which words from the speech help the reader understand the meaning of "redress" as used in line 54?

• "judge it proper" (line 50)

• "They have made application" (line 53)

• "why should you not pay also" (line 55)

• "they should not be permitted to come" (line 56)