Names of people, places, and things such as Beacon Street, November, McDonald's, Pierce.
What are proper nouns?
100
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Harry Potter, The Hobbit
What is fantasy?
100
People usually think of this first with poetry, but not all poems include it.
What is rhyme?
100
This is the antonym for daytime.
What is nighttime.
100
This punctuation mark goes at the end of a statement.
What is a period?
200
Actions words like sleep, try, do, be
What is a verb?
200
This genre usually includes animals who act like people. One of the animals may learn a moral, or lesson.
What is fable?
200
This is how poetry is sometimes organized. It's like paragraphs, but in a poem.
What is a stanza?
200
This is the antonym for warm.
What is cool?
200
This punctuation mark is used to separate words in a list.
What is a comma?
300
Words that describe nouns such as warm, sweet, green, frosty.
What are adjectives?
300
This genre tells exaggerated stories about things larger than life. It may have taken place at a time in history when Americans were moving west. Paul Bunyan and John Henry are this genre.
What is a tall tale?
300
If an author writes a story, this person writes a poem.
What is a poet?
300
This is the antonym for clean.
What is dirty.
300
This punctuation mark is placed around words that are spoken.
What are quotation marks?
400
People, places, or things.
What are nouns?
400
This is informational text that will teach you about real things.
What is non-fiction?
400
This is when words or lines in the poem repeat.
What is repetition?
400
This is the antonym for nervous.
What is confident.
400
This punctuation mark goes at the end of a question.
What is a question mark?
500
Wonderfully, soon, bravely, and other words that describe verbs.
What are adverbs?
500
Songs and poems are similar because they both have this, which is like a beat.
What is rhythm?
500
This is the antonym for friend.
What is enemy/foe.
500
This punctuation mark "bumps out" missing letters in a contraction.