The Poet X
Name four characters in the novel.
What's the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Metaphor is a comparison not using like or as. Simile is a comparison using like or as.
What Nina Simone song have we worked with extensively in class?
"Baltimore"
Where does Mr. G go to school?
Bard College
What are the "paragraphs of a poem" called?
Stanzas
Aman is surprisingly good at ... ?
Figure-skating
True or False?
Dissonance occurs when a series of similar sounding vowel sounds accompany one another.
False!
Dissonance is a series of dissimilar consonant sounds.
Langston Hughes
Ms. Segar's three word classroom mantra is:
Ready. Responsible. Respectful.
What kind of party did we have yesterday?
Tea party (or dinner party).
What is the title of the book's opening poem?
"Stoop-Sitting"
Give an example of "Assonance".
You loopdy loop and pull and your shoes are looking cool.
Define "capricious".
Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.
What was one of Ms. Segar's jobs other than being a high school English teacher?
Dance teacher, elementary school teacher, college-writing course/adjunct.
What was the name of the Gwendolyn Brooks poem we worked with?
"We Real Cool"
Where is Father Sean from?
Trinidad
What is an "allusion"?
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.
What's the difference between connotation and denotation?
Connotation is figurative/implied meaning. Denotation is literal/explicit meaning.
Ms. Segar "splits the bridge" between what two Hudson Valley towns?
Catskill and Hudson
True or False:
Enjambment is when a line of a poem ends at a grammatically logical point or in a complete grammatical statement.
False, that's an end-stop.
Enjambment is the opposite. An illogical grammatical ending or an incomplete thought.
Who or what, specifically, was Xiomara's Halloween costume?
Green Lantern.
Bonus 200: True or False: Acevedo has always loved avocados.
What form of meter, famously used by an all-time legendary playwright, follows a five pairs of stressed-unstressed syllables pattern?
Iambic pentameter.
Bonus 200: Who was the famous playwright?
Bonus 400: Who first introduced this form of meter?
Who said last week's quote?
Maya Angelou.
Bonus 200: Name one of the other quotees since the beginning of the year.
How many "children" does Mr. G have?
Mr. G has three reptile children.
Bonus 200 if you can name them all.
What is modernism, in a nutshell?
A breakaway from traditional artistic forms. An artistic movement from the late 1800s to mid 1900s.