Poetic Devices
Signposts
The Things We've Read
Root Words
Vocabulary
100

Whenever the words affect a certain feeling in the audience, they're setting the ______.

Mood 

100

Something is repeating in the story several times. 

Again and again 

100

We typically use Icarus flying too close to the sun as a metaphor for what?

Dangers of ambition. 

100

Geo

Earth

100
a chest of drawers

Bureau

200

In poems, they aren't called paragraphs. 

Stanzas 

200

When the character does something surprising.

Contrasts and Contradictions 

200

The two characters in "Rogue Wave". 

Sully and Scoot

200

Bio

Life

200

Very large

immense

300

When something represents something different. 

Metaphor 

300


Words of the Wiser 

300

What's Icarus's Dad's name?

Daedelus

300

Bene

good

300

Using the "-ly" suffix typically turns a word into what part of speech?

Adverb

400

Stephen Dobyns uses this strategy throughout the poem "Icarus's Flight". It's a question designed to illicit thought.

Rhetorical Question 

400

When a character recalls something from the past. 

Memory Moment 

400
"Rogue Wave" takes place far off the coast of what state?

California

400

[DAILY DOUBLE] Chron

Time

400

skill or expertise in a particular activity or field.

prowess

500

Whenever a poet flows one line into another without any punctuation. (No, not free verse.) 

Enjambment 

500

What's the anchor question for Words of the Wiser?

What's the life lesson and how might it affect the character? 

500

[DAILY DOUBLE] What "gift" did the girl receive at the end of the "The Stolen Party"?

Money

500

Therm

Heat

500

wild or distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion

frantic

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