Grammar
A connecting word! Links two clauses
and, or, but etc
conjunction
"The stars danced in the sky."
personification
A text that is not true/ not a true story.
Fiction
What does "Milwaukee" mean?
The Good Land
MOST famous British author of plays and poems - we normally refer to this person by their last name only.
Shakespeare !
Words like:
intelligent, sleepy, beautiful, angry, green, or crunchy
adjective
She was as strong as an ox.
Simile
A text that is created to be performed, rather than read.
A play/drama/script
The name of Ms. Erler's cat
Pippa
Name one American poet
Erler's discretion
This is used to connect two INDEPENDENT clauses that are thematically connected
colon
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
hyperbole
A text about the whole of someone's life, written by that person.
autobiography
Name one of the original peoples (Indigenous group) of what is now the Milwaukee area
Ho-Chunk, Potowatomi, Menominee, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, Ojibwe
Erler discretion
The fancy name for words that end in "-ing"
gerund
CRASHHHH
onomatopeia
A piece of writing that balances the nature of speech and song
poem
This sea creature has three hearts !
Octopus
This American poet performed at President Joe Biden's Inauguration
Amanda Gorman
A word or phrase that connects a dependent clause to an independent clause.
Subordinating Conjunction
Six silky snakes slithered slyly.
alliteration
(will also accept consonance)
Fancy literary term for 'letters'
epistles
This is the best selling novel of all time at ~ 500 million copies
Don Quixote de la Mancha
This American author spent a lot of time in Paris and Spain, was an amateur bullfighter (wrote about it), survived TWO plane crashes within TWO days, and reported on the Spanish Civil War.
Hemingway