Poetry
Vocabulary
Conventions
Figurative Language
MISC.
100

True or False: All poems need to rhyme.

False

100

the purpose and point of the paragraph or story

What is the main idea/central idea?

100

the boy ran away.

What is wrong with this sentence?

What is needs a capital letter?

100

a comparison using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

The thought of eating a rat is ABHORRENT to most people.

What do you think ABHORRENT means?

What is the Horrible/ Nasty

200

the "paragraph" of a poem

What is a stanza?

200

the moral/lesson the author wants you to learn

What is theme?

200

Did you see the boy run He is going to the store.

What is missing?

What is a question mark?

200

giving an object human qualities

What is personification?

200

Over the holidays, families can show their GENEROSITY by donating food to the homeless.

Willingness to give

300
Identify the figurative language used:


The angry mob tore through the town like a swirling tornado.

What is a simile?

300

A conclusion reached by using an educated guess.

What is an inference?

300

Which is the correct spelling?

A. acomplish

B. accomplish

C. accomplissh

D. acomplich


What is B. accomplish?

300

Tom taught Tina to play tennis.

What is alliteration?

300

When you read you often come to words that you don't know. One way to find out a word's meaning is to look for_________________________________

What is Context Clues?

400

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I passed ELA

I hope you did too!

What is the rhyme scheme?

What is ABCB?

400

anything that helps to prove that something is or is not true when referencing a text

What is text evidence?

400

The boy said, I am going to the store.

What is missing?

What are quotation marks?

400

BOOM!

BAM!

Bzzzzzzz!

Ringgggg!

What is onomatopoeia?

400

The garrulous boy rambled on continuously as he told his mother about his day at school.
What does garrulous mean?

What is Talkative?

500

Name 3 Elements of Poetry

Rhyme, Imagery, Alliteration, Repetition, Metaphor, Personification, Simile

500

diagrams, timelines, captions, photographs, graphs, subtitles, headings

What are text features?

500

Which is correct?

A. The teacher Mrs. Davis teaches 6th grade ELA.

B. The teacher, Mrs. Davis, teaches 6th grade ELA.

C. The teacher "Mrs. Davis" teaches 6th grade ELA.

What is B. The teacher, Mrs. Davis, teaches 6th grade ELA.

500

a figurative language phrase that has a non-literal meaning.

Ex: I really don’t want to go to the DMV today, but I’ll bite the bullet and get it over with.

What is an idiom?

500

Riddle me this:

What is yours but mostly used by others?

Your name!

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