Vocab
Skills
Concepts
Root words
Poetry
100

Hyperbole

An outrageous exaggeration that emphasizes a point

100

Plot mountain

The plot of the story is the sequence of events that make up a story

100

Setting is the... 

place or surroundings of the story 

100

Bio

Life

100

Rhyme

A similarity of sound in words with the same number of syllables. 

200

Metaphor

Compares two things by stating that one is another.

200

Thesis tells..

the reader how you will interpret the subject matter under discussion

200

Summary is... 

short description of the main point of the story

200

Act

To move or do

200

Stanza

A paragraph made of lines

300

Personification

Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals or ideas.

300

Figurative Language

Use of words with complicated meanings

300

Theme tells us.. 

the author's message or lesson

300

Astro

Star

300

Prose is a...

a form of language that does not rhyme and is not metrical. It is not poetry

400

Analogy

Definition: A comparison between two things

400

Dialogue represents..

a conversation between two or more characters in the story

400

Pac

Peace

400

Rhyme scheme

The ordered pattern of rhyme at the end of a line of poetry. 

500

Micropachycephalosaurus

Definition: The smallest dinosaur 

500

Text Structure is..

how the information is organized for the reader 

500

Manu 

Hand

500

Haiku

a poetic form that contains three lines, five syllables

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