Understanding Vocabulary
When reading and you come to a word that you do not understand what should you look for?
What is Context clues?
Feeling under the weather
Sick
What is a verse in a poem?
What is one line, similar to a sentence?
This is an example of what poetic device?
The cat sat on the mat
Rhyme
Twinkle, Twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky!
This is an example of a ______
What is poem?
The people in the play
Character
Have bigger fish to fry
More important things to worry about
What is a stanza in a poem?
What is a group of verses group together, similar to a paragraph.
Dialogue is when the characters are _______.
What is talking?
Jack and the Beanstalk
Once upon a time.............
And everyone lived happily ever after!
This is an example of a ________.
What is a prose?
It is a part of a play that consists of one or more scenes put together
Money does not grow on trees
Be careful in spending, money must be earned
A meter in a poem sets of the.....? (hint; what you also hear in music)
What is rhythm ?
The cast of characters in the play tells....
What is the list of people that will be performing in the play?
The Three Little Pigs
Wolf:
Pig One:
Pig Two:
Pig Three:
This is an example of a _______.
What is drama/play?
Main message or lesson of the play or poem
theme
Look like a million bucks
Looking great
The rhythm is the.....? ( hint; think about the "chorus" in songs)
What is the pattern of sounds?
The setting is where or _________ the story ______ _______.
What is when takes place?
Give an example of a rhyme
Twinkle, Twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky!
This is an example of a ______
This is the short version of the story that includes the important details.
Summary
The grass is greener on the other side
Things are better elsewhere
Triple Points: The number you are dividing by in a division problem
Divisor
Stage directions tell the characters how to ______.
What is act?
Double Points: What is Mrs. Moncus' first name?
Amanda