Poetry
True or False: All poems need to rhyme.
False
the purpose and point of the paragraph or story
What is the main idea/central idea?
the boy ran away.
What is wrong with this sentence?
What is needs a capital letter?
a comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The thought of eating a rat is ABHORRENT to most people.
What do you think ABHORRENT means?
What is the Horrible/ Nasty
the "paragraph" of a poem
What is a stanza?
the moral/lesson the author wants you to learn
What is theme?
Did you see the boy run He is going to the store.
What is missing?
What is a question mark?
giving an object human qualities
What is personification?
Over the holidays, families can show their GENEROSITY by donating food to the homeless.
Willingness to give
The angry mob tore through the town like a swirling tornado.
What is a simile?
A conclusion reached by using an educated guess.
What is an inference?
Which is the correct spelling?
A. acomplish
B. accomplish
C. accomplissh
D. acomplich
What is B. accomplish?
Tom taught Tina to play tennis.
What is alliteration?
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?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I passed ELA
I hope you did too!
What is the rhyme scheme?
What is ABCB?
anything that helps to prove that something is or is not true when referencing a text
What is text evidence?
The boy said, I am going to the store.
What is missing?
What are quotation marks?
BOOM!
BAM!
Bzzzzzzz!
Ringgggg!
What is onomatopoeia?
The garrulous boy rambled on continuously as he told his mother about his day at school.
What does garrulous mean?
What is Talkative?
Name 3 Elements of Poetry
Rhyme, Imagery, Alliteration, Repetition, Metaphor, Personification, Simile
diagrams, timelines, captions, photographs, graphs, subtitles, headings
What are text features?
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.
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?
Riddle me this:
What is yours but mostly used by others?
Your name!