Types of Poetry
Parts of Speech
Figurative Language
Literary Terms
Adventuring on the Nile
100
A long, often book-length, narrative in verse that retells a heroic journey.
what is An epic?
100
_____________ is the most important verb in the English language.
Example: "To be or not to be, that is the question"
(Hamlet; Shakespeare 3.1.56)
What is To be?
100
These words are examples of what form of figurative language?
what is Onomatopoeia?
100
A scene that interrupts the normal chronological order of a story to show an event that happened in the past.
What is a flashback?
100
The name of the river explored by Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown.
What is the Nile?
200
to a short poem, often with songlike qualities, that expresses the speaker’s personal emotions and feelings.
What is a Lyric poem?
200
Texas, LA Galaxy, Mr. Keumpel, Peet Junior High School, Houston, San Marcos River, Gulf of America, Galveston, Atlantic Ocean, United States of America, Argentina, and Mercedes Benz are ______________
(a) compound noun (b) common noun (c) noun phrase (d) proper noun
What is a proper noun?
200
______________ is an intentional exaggeration of the truth, used to emphasize the importance of something or to create a comic effect.
Example: As I walked the million mile home, I was hungry as a horse!
what is hyperbole?
200
The main events of a story, presented in a sequence.
What is plot?
200
The profession or job title Pasquale Scaturro holds that involves oil
What is a geophysicist?
300
This is a form of poetry in which the poet or speaker expresses grief, sadness, or loss.
What is an Elegy?
300
This is an action word.
What is a verb?
300
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
Example: The boy is as brave as a lion
what is a Simile?
300
The use of objects or ideas to represent something else.
Example: A dove often symbolizes peace.
What is Symbolism?
300
The two main tributaries, or smaller rivers, that meet in Sudan to form the Nile River.
What are the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
400
This is originally accompanied by music and dance, and later reserved by the Romantic poets, conveys strong sentiments—is a formal address to an event, a person, or a thing not present.
what is An ode?
400
This describes a noun or a pronoun.
(a) onomatopoeia (b) verb (c) adjective (d) simile
What is an adjective?
400
A direct comparison between unlike things without using "like" or "as"
Example: The classroom was a zoo.
What is a Metaphor?
400
The time, weather, or place in which a story takes place.
What is Setting?
400
The total number of miles traveled and the duration in months of Scaturro and Brown's entire journey.
What are 3,250 miles and four months?
500
Traditionally, this is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, employing one of several rhyme schemes, and adhering to a tightly structured thematic organization, taken from the Italian sonetto, which means “a little sound or song.”
what is A sonnet?
500
A sentence expresses a complete thought and requires a __________ and a ____________.
What are a subject (noun or pronoun) and a predicate (verb)?
500
Giving human qualities or actions to inanimate objects or animals.
Example: The wind howls through the trees.
(a) personification or anthropomorphism (b) simile (c) metaphor (d) alliteration
What is personification or anthropomorphism?
500
The central idea or "big idea" or underlying message of a text.
What is Theme?
500
The major theme, or idea, that the explorers hoped their journey would highlight about the Nile's role in northeastern Africa.
What is that the Nile is a unifying thread of civilization/brings people of different faiths and cultures together?