Poetry in Action
STOP! Grammar Time!
Brain Break
The Author to Her Book
Vocab Lab
100
Identify the literary device being used in this sentence:
The cat in the hat know alot about that!
What is rhyme?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea that can be classified as common or proper.
What is a noun?
100
This is Mr. Crew's favorite Stranger Things character.
Who is Steve Harrington?
100
This author is recognized as the father of nonsense literature and is well known for his poem "Jabberwocky."
Who is Lewis Carroll?
100
Define theme.
What is the central message or controlling idea of a story.
200
When Shakespeare says, "Death lies on her like an untimely frost," he is using this literary device.
What is a simile?
200
This is the difference between an adjective and an adverb.
An adjective modifies nouns or pronouns, while an adverb modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.
200
Who was the last team to win the PAC10 championship before it became the PAC12 in 2010?
Who are the Oregon Ducks?
200
This poet was known for his work catered towards children that usually contained a deeper message.
Ex: Masks, Backwards Bill, The Giving Tree
Who is Shel Silverstein?
200
These people are responsible for writing the movies, plays, and television shows we enjoy watching.
Who are screenwriters?
300
DAILY DOUBLE:
Shakespeare's line "jealousy is the green-eyed monster" is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
300
The part of a sentence that contains who or what the subject is or is doing.
What is a preposition?
300
This is the state where was Mrs. Crew born.
Where is New York?
300
This man with the fancy mustache ailed from France and wrote the famous short story Two Friends.
Who is Guy de Maupassant?
300
Provide me with one example of internal conflict and one example of external conflict.
Internal: man vs self, man vs fate
External: Man vs Nature, man vs man, man vs society, man vs technology, man vs supernatural
400
Identify the poetic device being used in this sentence:
Kivu Coffee Company has some of the coolest cappuccino cups in Colorado!
What is alliteration?
400
The "to be" test can help us identify this kind of complement:
What is an objective complement?
400
DAILY DOUBLE: Peanuts was first published in this year.
What is 1950?
400
This author, known for his use of irony, published his books under the pseudonym O. Henry.
Who is William Sydney Porter?
400
Use the word macabre in a sentence.
Answer Varies
500
The following are all examples of this literary device:
Lion = Courage
Dove = Peace
Skull = Death
What is symbolism?
500
Turn the passive sentence to an active one:
The orange ping-pong ball was smacked over then net to Timmy's opponent.
What is "Timmy smacked the orange ping-pong ball over the net to his opponent"?
500
This is the college in Oxford University where C.S. Lewis spent his years as a fellow (a senior member of the college who teaches or conducts reasarch
).
Where is Magdalen College?
500
Name four of Edgar Allan Poe's works.
What are: The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat, The Tell Tale Heart, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, Annabel Lee, The Bells, Lenore, The Masque of the Red Death...
500
What is the difference between naturalism and romanticism?
Naturalism emphasize scientific observation without idealization.
Romanticism emphasizes imagination and emotions.