This is a verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing five, seven and five syllables respectively.
What is an haiku?
100
He was the writer of the poem "Indian Boy Love Song."
Who is Sherman Alexie?
100
"And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,/ Went home and put a bullet through his head" is an example of this literary technique.
What is irony?
100
This is a group of words that do not express a complete thought.
What is a fragment?
200
This is where you should place your thesis.
What is at the very end of the introduction?
200
This is a poem in which certain letters in each line form a word or words.
What is an acrostic?
200
He is the poet who wrote "Richard Cory."
Who is Edwin Arlington Robinson?
200
This is the literal meaning or dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
200
This is a word that takes the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
300
This is the part of the introduction that comes directly between the hook and the thesis statement.
What is the transition or bridge?
300
This is a poem that is comprised of seven lines and takes the shape of a diamond.
What is a diamante?
300
This is the tone of "Indian Boy Love Song."
What is regret?
300
This is a word that has more than one meaning.
What is double denotation?
300
This is a group of words that expresses too many thoughts without enough punctuation.
What is a run-on?
400
This is the stage of the writing process in which one considers and improves the meaning and underlying structure of a written draft.
What is revision?
400
The is a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.
What is a limerick?
400
"He was a gentleman from sole to crown," is an example of connotation or denotation and why?
What is connotation because it implies that he was almost royal ("crown") - rich and important?
400
"I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street," is an example of this literary technique.
What is hyperbole?
400
This is the word with which the pronoun must agree.
What is the antecedent?
500
These are used to show the connections between ideas and move smoothly from one thought to another.
What are transitions?
500
This type of poem is ten lines in length and begins with the subject's first name and ends with his/her last name.
What is a bio-simile?
500
In the following lines from "Indian Boy Love Song," the function of the word "old" is what?
"I never spoke
the language
of the old woman"
What is an adjective?
500
"...in winters so cold
they could freeze
the tongue whole" from "Indian Boy Love Song" is an example of this literary technique.
What is imagery?
500
This refers to the perspective from which the sentence is told.