Poetry Vocabulary
the name of a "poem paragraph"
What is a STANZA?
In the story "Ball Hawk", this setting caused internal conflict and stress for Mitchell because it made him miss his dad a lot.
What is the BASEBALL FIELD?
the person who tells the story
What is a narrator?
the two main types of conflict
What are internal conflict & external conflict?
"Like a heavy coat in the heat of summer, sadness covered her - unwanted and suffocating."
What is a simile?
What is a LINE BREAK?
This setting would cause a baseball player to feel pretty nervous.
What is the effect of a really crowded stadium?
Where the narrator is an outside observer, not a character in the story.
What is third person point of view?
This type of conflict is signaled with verbs like: wondered, worried, and nervous.
What is internal conflict?
"The tennis ball screamed as it soared through the air, desperate to escape the fury and power of the racket"
What is personification?
When a poem or novel in verse has frequent rhyming words at the end of the lines.
What is a REGULAR RHYME STRUCTURE?
The point of view used in "Ball Hawk" that allows the reader to only see the story and characters from a biased way- only from Mitchell's perspective.
What is FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW?
Where the narrator is one of the characters in the story.
What is first person point of view?
This type of external conflict occurs when one character is bullying or taunting another, like when the pitcher mouthed "easy out" at Mitchell in "Ball Hawk".
What is character vs. character conflict?
These two are similar because they both compare two unlike things that have one trait in common. They are different because one uses "like" or "as" and the other does not.
What is similar and different about similes and metphors?
when a story is told in the order that the events happened (ex: first, second, third)
What is CHRONOLOGICAL?
This point of view allows the reader to get a clear picture of reality, since they can see from multiple characters' points of view
What is THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT?
Where the narrator is an outside observer and can see into the minds of just one character.
What is third person limited?
the life lesson the author wants the reader to learn by reading the text.
What is a theme?
What is a metaphor?
When there is not a clear rhyming pattern
What is an IRREGULAR RHYME STRUCTURE?
Third person limited.
What is the point of view where the narrator can give the reader a somewhat unbiased perspective of what is going on, but still let the reader see into just the protagonist's inner thoughts and feelings?
The point of view used for directions, recipes, or manuals; not found in fiction texts
What is second person point of view?
the reader's prior knowledge PLUS specific text evidence
What is an inference?
"Anger wrapped its strong arms around Pete and squeezed him, making his blood pressure rise and his calmness evaporate."
What is personification?