Poetry
Figurative Language
Test Taking Strategies
What Does This Word Mean?
100
What is another name for a line in a poem?
Verse
100
What is personification?
When you give human qualities to an object or animal
100
How should you fill in the bubbles on the bubble sheet?
Dark and Completely. Like beautiful round circles! 360° of joy!
100
He was standing in his crib, his face FLUSHED and his cheeks shiny with tears
RUDDY OR REDDISH IN COLOR
200
What do you call the words at the end of a verse that sound similar?
A rhyme
200
What is this an example of? The assignment was a breeze
metaphor
200
What should you have in your Short Response ?
RAPP!
200
In a typical morning on the job, Harrison tastes and EVALUATES 60 ice-cream samples. a) counts b) estimates c) judges d) names
c) judges
300
What is a theme?
a main idea, issue, or message of a text
300
How can we make this metaphor a simile? Her skin is marble
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300
What should you do when you read passages in the test?
- Read actively - Annotate - Chunk Bonus: Non-Fiction: Main Idea Fiction: Theme
300
When the test asks you to compare and contrast, what does that mean?
Examine and note the similarities and differences of ...
400
What is a group of verses called?
Stanza
400
What is this an example of? " The telephone sighed, as Jenna continued rambling into the phone."
Personification
400
What do you do when you come to an Extended Response question?
Read the question twice. Annotate Tasks Plan! Write!!!!
400
What is repetition and why is it used?
Repetition is when words or phrases are repeated to suggest importance and/or to stick in the reader's mind
500
Read this excerpt from this poem, "Just yesterday she was small and warm; / today she is a quarreling storm" The poet most likely uses these words to show that the wind, a) will soon bring rain b) is having an argument c) is acting confused and upset d) has grown strong and fierce
d) has grown strong and fierce
500
With your group, write your own simile, metaphor and personification!!! Please label them!
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500
What do you do if you are running out of time?
Take a deep breath and finish as much as you can!
500
What is point of view?
The perspective from which a story is told: 1st person: I, Me, My, We 3rd Person: She/He, Hers/His, They
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