Beyond Cliche - Content

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  1. 4. Physical objects serving as gateways into narrative around ‘so much more’
  2. 6. Another example of {reference appropriate ‘wordplay’ clue number}: Don’t rush the title interpretation of this essay by Reiderer
  3. 9. Example of {insert relevant clue # here) DeSalvo’s focus on the qualities and types of this in the very early pages of Crazy in the Kitchen allow her to speak to multiple themes important to the narrative: right vs wrong, Italian vs American, grandmother vs mother, natural vs manufactured
  4. 12. Former British sitcom or this theme common to In Revere: In Those Days, Crazy in the Ktichen, and Bird in Hand
  5. 15. Silverman's essay The Wandering Jew does a beautiful job illustrating the many primary elements for adhering to this mantra – personify emotion, use rich language, engage the senses but cut the ‘sensing’ verbs, use dialogue, be specific/be descriptive
Down
  1. 1. Another example of {reference appropriate ‘wordplay’ clue number}: Possible alternate title for Amy Tan’s essay Mother Tongue
  2. 2. This author seamlessly combines the adage (from visual value clue #) with the technique (from wordplay clue #) in this following passage: “The picture of the hand was completely unnecessary; the blank line would have sufficed. But the hand is there. And it is the hand of authority, and it has dressed itself formally for the occasion, in white shirt and dark suit, and there can be no mistaking that it is a white hand, and that the white hand is a man’s hand, and that the complexion of the white man’s hand is not dark, like my grandmother’s, but fair. It is the fairest of all.”**
  3. 3. This Mountain City author takes a different approach but similarly writes {see related weather clue info} as a member of the community, an entity to be lived with as much as lived through
  4. 5. Common to DeSalvo’s book and Kingsolver's essay Letter to My Mother, a young short-sighted theme?
  5. 7. Like bread in Crazy in the Kitchen, these colored smocks in Mountain City represent a fabric of connection in the community
  6. 8. Academic frolicking to some
  7. 10. In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, Alexandra Fuller features Africa, as does Bill Bryson with Australia in In a Sunburned Country, as a main one of these
  8. 11. Alternative to living through emotional storms?
  9. 13. From common adage, visual with 11th letter written value
  10. 14. This early example of symbolism becomes increasingly important throughout the book with {see bread clue info}/food/cooking serving as this for complex family identity and relationships