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Theme verse for raisin in the sun
John 15:2
Name the five themes in a raisin in the sun
Dreams, dignity and pride, race, gender, money
Functional types
Statement, question, command, exclamation, and conditional
Declarative/statement
Tell something about a person place thing or idea
Question/interrogative
Asks a question
Imperative/command
Makes a command; often contains an understood subject you
Exclamatory
Communicate strong emotions/feelings
Conditional
Express connection, if then
grammatical types
Simple, compound, complex, compound – complex
Simple
Contains one independent clause
Compound
Contains two or more independent clauses
Complex
Contains one independent clause in one or more dependent clause
Compound – complex
Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
Rhetorical types
Periodic, cumulative, parallel, anti-thetical
Periodic
Opens with modifiers, withhold subject and verb until the end. If you were to leave off the last portion of the sentence, it would be a fragment
Cumulative/loose
Begins with subject and verb and adds modifying elements at the end. Opposite of periodic
Balance
Express is similar or like ideas often compound.
Anti-thetical
Compares opposites, often compound.
What does the plant symbolize
The American dream
Walters tragic flaws
Greed and pride
beneathas tragic flaws
Pride and feminism
asagai’s tragic flaws
Humanism and pride in self
Mamas tragic flaws
Feminism, controlling
Author of a raisin in the sun
Hansberry
