Poetry
True or False: All poems need to rhyme.
False
the purpose and point of the paragraph
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 is the Horrible/ Nasty
the "paragraph" of a poem
What is a stanza?
the moral/lesson learned
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.
the space between stanzas
What is a line break?
The dictionary definition of a word
What is denotation
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 words meanings 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
What is evidence?
The boy said, I am going to the store.
What is missing?
What are quotation marks?
BOOM!
BAM!
Bzzzzzzz!
Ringgggg!
What is onomatopoeia?
Which sentence provides the best information to support the idea that
ancient civilizations used their knowledge of forces to move massive objects?
A. For thousands of years, people have recognized the importance of forces.
B. Even if they don’t fully understand them, they have certainly known how to use them.
C. Monuments like the pyramids in Egypt and Stonehenge in England were built because our ancestors developed an understanding of how to use forces to make work easier.
D. That process of using forces to make work easier continues today.
Monuments like the pyramids in Egypt and Stonehenge in England were built because our ancestors developed an understanding of how to use forces to make work easier.
When a poet give human characteristics to a non human object.
What is personification
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.
an exaggeration; For example, I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is hyperbole?
The collapse of banks in Iceland led to $100 billion in losses
Source: Boomerang by Michael Lewis, page 3. Published by Norton, New York 2011
Which is the correct in-text citation for this piece of information?
(Norton, 2011.)
Michael Lewis p. 3
(Lewis 3).
(Boomerang)
(Lewis 3).