Analyzing Language in a Personal Narrative

Question 1

Why is strong and precise word choice important?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It allows the reader to imagine what is happening as the author intended.

Question 2

What image of Mrs. Auld do the adjectives create?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

a good woman made angry and mean by enslaving people

Question 3

Which word is an example of a strong verb?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

departed; ministering

Question 4

Which word is an example of a strong verb?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ departed; departed; ministering

Question 5

spiritthrough✔ ministering

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ ministering

Question 6

Which phrase is evidence that enslaved people on plantations were treated especially badly?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

“those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.”

Question 7

✔ It connotes an extreme version of hurrying.It connotes a calmer version of hurrying.It connotes a creative version of hurrying.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

✔ It connotes an extreme version of hurrying.

Question 8

What effect does the word snatch have on the reader?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It suggests being upset or desperate.

Analyzing Language in a Personal Narrative Answers