Grammar
TPDASTT
"O' Captain, My Captain"
Poetry
Elements of Plot
100
Every sentence will include a ________ and a __________.
What is a subject and verb?
100
The step in TPDASTT when you predict what the poem will be about and later put what it actually means.
What is title?
100
The amount of lines that are in "O' Captain, My Captain".
What is 24?
100
AABB is an example of ________.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
Organized sequence of events that make up a story.
What is plot?
200
All of these will begin with a preposition and end with a noun or pronoun.
What is a prepositional phrase?
200
When you put the poem into your own words.
What is paraphrase?
200
The last line of each stanza in "O' Captain, My Captain" is an example of ______.
What is repetition?
200
A continuous comparison of two unlike things.
What is an extended metaphor?
200
The tortoise in "The Tortoise and the Hare" being lifted onto his friends' shoulders and celebrating his victory is an example of _________ in the plot structure.
What is falling action or resolution/denouement?
300
This comma rule happens when you add a comma before a FANBOYS in a compound sentence.
What is Comma Rule #2?
300
Rhyme scheme, point-of-view, stanza and length amount can all be found in this step of TPDASTT.
What is "Details"?
300
The fact that "O' Captain, My Captain" focuses on a single strong idea expressed by a single speaker offering advice makes this a _____ poem.
What is lyric?
300
This poetic technique looks at where the words will go and how they will all fit together.
What is word position?
300
In regards to the elements of plot, this is when Aladdin fights Jafar, and Jafar turns into a gigantic snake, and Aladdin tricks Jafar into turning into a genie.
What is the climax?
400
When a noun or a pronoun is set off in commas and renames the noun or pronoun right before it.
What is an appositive?
400
All of the poems we have studied have been in this tense.
What is present tense?
400
The trip/voyage in "O' Captain, My Captain" is an extended metaphor for _______.
What is the Civil War?
400
These add visual appearance to poems and their meaning.
What are capital letters?
400
This is created during the rising action building toward the point of greatest interest.
What is suspense?
500
When you have the preposition "to" followed by an action verb that acts like a noun in the sentence.
What is an infinitive?
500
The two different types of shifts that can occur in a poem.
What is a shift in speaker or tone?
500
This is the last attitude/tone word in each stanza of the poem.
What is morbid?
500
Five different types of figurative language.
What are similes, metaphors, idioms, personification, alliteration, etc. (answers will vary, and there a lot more answer choices).
500
Three things that should be included in your exposition.
What is the setting, characters, and background sentence/information?
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