SMILE
What does the 'S' in SMILE stand for?
Bonus: 100 points if you can explain what figurative language term is used in the above sentence.
Structure
Bonus: Alliteration
Who dies in "O Captain, My Captain"?
Bonus: 500 points if anyone knows what the extended metaphor is in the poem
The Captain
Bonus: The metaphor is comparing the United States to a ship and the captain to President Abraham Lincoln
Professor Playfair’s introductory class to Translation Theory met at Tuesday mornings on the fifth floor of the tower. They’d barely been seated when he began to lecture, filling the narrow classroom with his booming showman’s voice.
3rd person
A comparison of two unlike things without using like or as
Metaphor
Positive or negative?
Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.
Negative
What is a pattern of sounds that repeat at the end of a line, such as ABABCC
What point of view (POV) is "The Road Not Taken"?
First person
A flash of light and sound blinded and deafened me. Earth and gravel pelted me and I flinched.
First person
An obvious exaggeration that is not meant to be understood literally
Hyperbole
Positive or negative?
Burr grinned. “Things are looking up. We are free to move again, with our lines of supply secure and the weather finally dry. If your plan works then we have a chance of finishing the enemy within a couple of weeks! They’ve been a courageous and useful set of allies!”
Positive
What is a group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph?
A stanza
What is the meaning of "The Raven"?
Give some story-specific details to explain how you found this meaning.
I will allow any answer as long as it is related to the narrator's unending grief for his lost Lenore.
Lord Marshal Burr was in the midst of writing a letter, but he smiled up as West let the tent flap drop. “How are you, Colonel?”
3rd person
A word or phrase that hints at something or someone well known
Allusion
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Write an example of 'your/you're' in a sentence. First one to complete the task wins.
What is a theme statement?
A universal message (not necessarily a moral or lesson)
What is an example of repetition in "The Raven"?
Nevermore, Lenore, chamber door, raven, etc.
Ketterley gave a short, sharp, humourless laugh. ‘Hardly. Laurence has no shame. He’s just perverse. If someone says white, he’ll say black. If you say you want to see him, then he won’t want to see you. That’s just the way he is.’
I lifted my messenger bag on to my lap and fetched out my journal.
1st person
Two contradictory words near each other
Oxymoron
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Write an example of "it's/its" in a sentence. First one to complete the task wins.
What is mood?
What is tone?
Mood is the emotion that a text evokes from the reader
Tone is the author's attitude or emotional stance toward the subject matter
Give an example of a theme present in "The Highwayman"
Mr. Thomas will judge what is an acceptable answer.
He leaves the room. You hear him doing purposeful-sounding things at the front of the house. After a few moments, he leaves to go to his meeting. You contemplate rest and decide against it.
2nd person
The use of objects, characters, settings, or actions to represent something else, often an idea that has a deeper meaning
Symbolism
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Write an example of, 'there/their/they're' in a sentence. First one to complete the task wins.