Poetry
True or False: All poems need to rhyme.
False
the purpose and point of the paragraph
What is the main idea/central idea?
the boy ran away.
The first letter.
What needs a capital letter?
a comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The thought of eating a rat is ABHORRENT to most people.
What word means horrible/nasty?
the "paragraph" of a poem
What is a stanza?
the moral/lesson learned
What is theme?
Did you see the boy run He is going to the store.
The question mark.
What punctuation is missing?
giving an object human qualities
What is personification?
Over the holidays, families can show their GENEROSITY by donating food to the homeless.
the space between stanzas
What is a line break?
A conclusion reached by using an educated guess.
What is an inference?
Which is the correct spelling?
A. acomplish
B. accomplish
C. accomplissh
D. acomplich
B. accomplish.
Tom taught Tina to play tennis.
What is alliteration?
When you read you often come to words that you don't know. One way to find out a words meanings is to look for_________________________________
What are context clues?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I passed ELA
I hope you did too!
What is the rhyme scheme?
What is ABCB?
anything that helps to prove that something is or is not true
What is evidence?
The boy said "I am going to the store."
They are used here to show someone is speaking.
What are quotation marks?
BOOM!
BAM!
Bzzzzzzz!
Ringgggg!
What is onomatopoeia?
The garrulous boy rambled on continuously as he told his mother about his day at school.
What does garrulous mean?
Talkative.
a 14 line poem, with a couplet
What is a sonnet?
diagrams, timelines, captions, photographs, graphs, subtitles, headings
What are text features?
Which is correct?
A. The teacher, Ms. Sarah teaches 9th and 11th grade ELA.
B. The teacher, Ms. Sarah, teaches 9th and 11th grade ELA.
C. The teacher "Ms. Sarah" teaches 9th and 11th grade ELA.
B. The teacher, Ms. Sarah, teaches 9th and 11th grade ELA.
an exaggeration; For example, I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is hyperbole?
On Wednesday 19th February.
When is the next summative essay/assignment?