Poetry
A _____ is a group of arranged lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The message about life that the writer or poet shares with the reader in their narrative.
What is the theme?
This geometrical shape is 1/3 of the volume of a cylinder with the same height and base.
What is a cone?
This figurative language is comparing one thing to another while using like or as.
What is a simile?
This structure of the text is a pattern of an event that leads to another event.
What is cause-and-effect?
A poem that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is a free verse poem?
An example of this figurative language is in this reading below:
While walking home from school, I was a melting popsicle in the sun.
What is a metaphor?
A baseball team played 75 games and lost 20% of them. This is the number of games the team lost.
What is 15?
The use of words with a sound associated with them.
What is onomatopoeia?
The author's attitude towards a subject.
What is tone?
_____ is the repetition of sounds at the end of words in a poem. Ex.-more and roar.
What is rhyme?
The use of language to say the opposite of what is meant.
What is irony?
The Cobras won 94 of their games and lost 66 of their games. ____ is the percentage of the games the team has won.
What is 58.75%?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
This supports the author's claim while using specific facts, statistics, or examples.
What is evidence?
Shakespear might be a known poet using this 14-line poem form.
What is a sonnet?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
This is a theory stating that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
What is hyperbole?
The beginning or introduction of a story. In this section, the characters and setting are presented.
What is the exposition?
This form is a fixed form that includes stanzas with the same number of lines and a rhyme scheme.
What is traditional form?
This is an example of this grammatical error.
Nancy served lunch to her guests on ceramic plates.
What is a misplaced modifier?
A baseball player got 102 hits in the last 300 times at bat. Find the percentage of the times the player was at-bat and got a hit.
What is 34%?
Identify the figurative language-
The slice of decadent chocolate cake called my name.
What is personification?
This type of narrative is set in the past and includes real places and events but is still fictional.
What is historical fiction?