Vocabulary
This is the basic unit of a poem.
What is a line?
These bags weigh a ton
What is hyperbole
As dry as dust.
What is a simile?
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
What is ABAB?
Who is Mr. Cross favorite Superhero?
Barry Allen aka The Flash
This is a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
My love is an ocean
What is Metaphor
His heart is a stone.
What is a metaphor?
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
What is AABB
What is Mr. Cross' Favorite Sport?
AABB
Rhyme Scheme
Onomatopoeia
The sun smiles down on me.
What is personification?
Mary had a little lamb
Its fleece was white as snow.
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
What is ABCB
How old is Mr. Cross
38
When words end with the same ending sound they what?
Lightning danced across the sky.
What is Personification
Susie slowly sat in the sand.
What is alliteration?
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
What is ABAAB?
How long has Mr. Cross been a teacher at Ireland? In years
This is the word for the message or lesson of a poem.
What is theme?
She is as skinny as a beanpole.
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What is a Simile
The cannon went boom! Boom! Boom!
What is onomatopoeia?
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam I am.
I do not like them in a boat.
I do not like them with a goat.
I do not like them in a house.
I do not like them with a mouse.
What is AABBCC
Where was Mr. Cross born?