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Melting Pot a place with many different races and cultures live together and blend Multiculturalism cultures mixing together (but not necessarily blending) Tolerance accepting without prejudices Metaphor comparison of 2 unlike things Determine Importance decide what is most relavent, identify main ideas Infer draw conclusions/ make predictions and guesses Monitor for Meaning "Am I getting this?? Do I understand this?" Schema background knowledge applied to text Context Clues understanding a word by getting clues from the sentence Synthesis "So what?" ; most important idea/message of story Anecdote short, funny/amusing story Autobiography story of own life story Biography story of someone else's life Essay short; non-fiction; prose; one particular topic Chronological Order in order Exaggeration stretching the truth to make the story more interesting Non-fiction prose; reality; real people, places, etc Persuasive Essay convincing; voice (All together now) Prose not poetry or drama Symbolism an object used to stand for something else Voice author's personality shown in the writing Anna Quindlen author of Melting Pot Multicultural Essay type of essay- Melting Pot Alex Haley author of My Furthest-back Person Personal Essay type of essay- My Furthet-back Person Chief Dan George author of I Am a Native of North America in quotes all titles of ESSAYS must be... Reflective Essay type of essay- I Am a Native of North America Barbara Jordan author of All Together Now Persuasive Essay type of essay- All Together Now Bill Cosby author of Passenger Abuse Anecdote type of essay- Passenger Abuse Annie Dillard author of The Chase Memoir/Autobiography type of essay- The Chase