Literary Terms
Vocabulary
Parts of Speech
Strictly Poetry
Miscellaneous
100
Example: Three bees flee through trees from fleas.
What is an Alliteration?
100
Demonstrate the action for factotum
Yay!
100
Definition: an action word
What is a verb?
100
This celebrated author wrote "After Apple Picking."
Who is Robert Frost?
100
Definition: a copy or imitation
What is facsimile?
200
Giving human characteristics to an inhuman object.
What is personification?
200
Definition: level of achievement or authority; standing
What is stature?
200
The subjet is also a_________
What is a noun?
200
What is the setting of "We Real Cool?"
What is the Golden Shovel?
200
Name one Lanphear Law. No Peaking!
What is be kind? What is be prepared? etc...
300
Example: My legs are rubber.
What is a metaphor?
300
Give a sentence using infrastructure
The council discussed improvements to the infrastructure of the county tax program.
300
Identify the adjective(s): The green monster like smelly socks, orange bananas, and enormous pants.
What are green, smelly, oragne, and enormous.
300
What form of poetry is often used to express feelings?
What is lyrical?
300
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. ---Fire and Ice By Robert Frost 1874–1963
What is ABAABCBCB?
400
A word that sounds like what it means
What is an onomatopoeia?
400
Define: construe
What is to interpret or analyze something in a particular way?
400
Identify the adverb: The child guiltily admitted to sneaking a cookie from the jar.
What is guiltily?
400
What is "since feeling is first" about?
What is do not try to keep love in a box? What is love is more important than brains? What is you should not try to contain love?
400
What is a thesis statement?
What is the sentence in your paper that contains your focus or tells what your paper is about.
500
Example: I live to dance, to run, and to jump.
What is parallel structure?
500
Fill in the blanks using words from Unit 7 vocabulary: The speaker, a(n)_________ of making National Pie Day and Federal Holiday, began to __________ upon the importance of pie.
What is proponent; expound?
500
Examples:about, above, across, after, against, along, amid, among, around, as, at, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, but, by, down, during, except, excluding, following, for, from, in, inside, into, like, near, of, off, on, onto, opposite, outside, over, past , per, plus, round, save, since, than, through, to, toward, towards, under, underneath, until, up, upon, via, with, within, without
What are prepositions?
500
What is this poem's form? Fog by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
What is free verse?
500
What is imagery? What is symbolism? What is a simile?
What are words that invoke or stimulate the senses? What is something that represents something else? What is a statement that compares two things using like, as, resembles, or than.
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