Figuratively Speaking
EEK! Mr. Kelly's remote control runs away from him when he gives an example of this
What is Personification?
Prepare, preplan, preview, and predict all share this in the form of pre-
What is a prefix?
A new addition to your writing this year, you clearly know the importance that this part of a paragraph explains
What is analysis?
People love poems, specifically when they are named in the first line of them like in this style of poem
What is a clerihew?
Super sleepy students sometimes say sentences using this
What is Alliteration?
Mr. Kelly has a smile like the cheshire cat when students can spell this figurative language term correctly
What is a simile?
Happy can turn into happier or happiest depending on your mood and which one of these you add to it
What is a suffix?
You can feel something, see something, smell something, taste something, or hear something, but when you describe it in your writing it is called this
What are sensory details?
typically exploring nature, emotions, and the human experience these Japanese poems have about 6-7 syllables in the 2nd, 4th, and 5th lines
What is a Tanka?
Whether it be a rose growing from concrete or a caged bird singing, author's use this to represent
What is symbolism / a symbol
Mr. Kelly has some rough days, but it's probably an over exaggeration to say they are as bad as sailing the north sea
What is a hyperbole?
The core, center, and base of a word is called this and has its meaning changed when something is added to the front of it, it's tense when something added to the end
What is a root?
It's easier if you just go with these types of quotes that "blend" into the sentence
What is a flow quote?
Oh poetry, oh poetry, I love to write directly to you when I start this multi-stanza poem
What is an Ode?
Whether the book be The Giver, The Hunger Games, or Fahrenheit 451 these types of novels have a bleak outlook on our future
What is a dystopia / dystopian novel
Its old news and and an open secret that you'll feel awfully good if you get this spicy level term
What is an oxymoron?
Definite or indefinite, these are placed before nouns to indicate whether they are general (ex. a table) or specific (ex. the table)
What is an article?
Although jeopardy takes a while to make, it is such a fun and engaging way to get kids to remember this type of claim
What is a counterclaim?
Shaped like a diamond or an arrow, this seven line poem had us clapping syllables from 3 to 5 to 7 to 9 to 7 to 5 to 3
What is a septet?
Yikes yikes yikes
that's all Kelly says
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When you repeatedly forget this literary element
What is anaphora?
Points will be raining like cats and dogs if you remember this spicy figurative language term
What is an Idiom?
Some drop science, Dr. Dre dropped English, when he said "it gets funky when you've got a subject and..." this, which is the second part of a complete sentence
What is a predicate?
An acronym and strategy when writing a paragraph for an essay is CLEAR, however when answering short response questions on a standardized test, we used this acronym and strategy. Double points for each part that of the acronym you remember
What is RACE
Restate, answer, cite, explain
sometimes these ideas run
for lines and lines and lines
until it is labeled as this
What is enjambment?
Girls and Boys should be fans of this acronym which helps us remember these coordinating conjunctions used to combine 2 complete sentences.
500 for each one you can name.
What is FANBOYS?
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, and So