Pure Poetry
A stanza with 2 lines.
What is a couplet?
Antonym for slow.
What is nimble?
Synonym for deadly.
What is lethal?
The author of Maniac Magee.
Who is Jerry Spinelli?
Done in or upon water.
What is aquatic?
A stanza with 5 lines.
What is a cinquain?
Antonym for misbehaved.
What is docile?
Synonym for cutting into.
What is mutilate?
The biographer who wrote Gordon Parks: Focus on America.
Who is Skip Berry?
Watchful; ready for danger.
What is vigilant?
The formal names for a poem's rhythm.
What is meter?
Antonym for light and fast.
What is ponderous?
Synonym for hopeless.
What is bleak?
The author of Virtue Goes to Town and Explorers in a Different Country (AKA Star Fisher).
Who is Laurence Yep?
To come close to the edge or border of.
What is verge?
Where a poem's rhyme is at the end of the line.
What is an end rhyme?
Antonym for easy situation.
What is plight?
Synonym for heedless.
What is blithe?
The biographer who wrote the biography on Sam Houston called What? Quit the Battle?
Who is Jean Fritz?
To watch closely or frequently, to observe and make note.
A stanza that has 8 lines.
What is an octave?
Antonym for shy and timid.
What is assertive?
Synonym for smaller.
What is dwindle?
Author of They Made Themselves Heard.
Who is Janine Richardson?
To turn away or keep from happening.
What is avert?