Poetry Terms 📚
Figurative Language ✨
Fiction / Stories 📖
ARS ⭐️
100
The "paragraph" of poetry
Stanza
100
"His hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze" is an example of this type of figurative language.
Simile
100
The beginning of a story's plot
Exposition
100
What is the full name of our school?
The Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders
200
A single line of a poem
Verse
200
This entry from Mrs. Bacarisse's second grade diary is an example of which type of figurative language?
Hyperbole
200
A struggle that takes place inside a character’s mind or heart
Internal conflict
200
True or False: Ann Richards was the first woman governor of Texas
FALSE - She was the second woman governor of Texas
300
Poems without rhythm and rhyme
Free verse
300
"The wildfire ran through the forest at an amazing speed" is an example of this type of figurative language.
Personification
300
Describing a character based on their actions, thoughts, feelings, and words
Characterization
300
What year did ARS open?
2007
400
A poem that celebrates a subject; a tribute to an object, person, or event
Ode
400
"Don't cry over spilled milk" is an example of this type of figurative langauge.
Idiom
400
This is the name for all literature that is not poetry
Prose
400
What is our college advisor's name?
(Mr. _______________)
Heineman
500
A stanza or poem that contains 8 lines
Octave
500
"This is a CLASSROOM! This isn't the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!" is an example of this type of figurative language.
Allusion
500
What type of conflict is this?
A teenager breaks the curfew set by her parents so that she can go to the movies with friends.
Character vs Society
500
Ann Richards shares a maiden name* with this ARS teacher
*The last name that a person is given at birth and that some women change when they marry.
Mrs. Bacarisse 🤩
Dorothy Ann Willis --> Ann Richards
Kaley Willis --> Kaley Bacarisse