Personal Essay
What are the five senses used when writing with sensory language?
Where does YOUR address go in an informal letter?
Top right hand side
What is another name for a poetic technique?
What state was Emily Dickinson born in?
MA - Massachusetts
What do you call someone who is really, really, really energetic?
Zealous
Two: Your address and their address
What is a simile?
The Soul has Bandaged moments
What do you call someone who hates new languages and new cultures?
75 to 90 minutes
Where does YOUR address go when writing a diary entry?
Nowhere. Your address should not be included in a diary entry.
What is personification?
To give human-like qualities to an inanimate object
Which of these is NOT a feature of Gothic Literature: intense emotion, gloomy, supernatural monsters, fairytales, heroes, damsels in distress.
Fairytales
What does pewter mean?
A type of blue-grey metal
What sensory language is used in the poem, I felt a Funeral, in my Brain?
the sense of hearing
What register is used in a letter to the editor?
Formal as much as possible
God is mentioned in two of the poems we studied. What was he called and name the poems he was mentioned in.
King (I heard a Fly buzz, when I died) and Being (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
What is a vagrant?
A person who is poor, does not have a job, and moves between places.
When writing composition pieces, what acronym should you keep in mind?
When writing a letter to the editor, where does YOUR address go?
For 500 points, you have to spell this correctly -what poetic technique mimics the sound in real life? For example: clap, bang, boom, ring
Onomatopoeia
And then I heard them lift a Box and creak across my Soul. What box was the poet referring to, and what would happen when this box is (accidentally) opened?
Pandora's Box, once opened will release the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse
What does clout mean?
Power to influence people/Heavy blow with the hand