Poetry
Genres
Point of view
Upon the Burning of Our House
Miscellaneous
100
Two lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
100
A work of literature that is fiction, narrative, book-length, prose.
What is a novel?
100
I like pepperoni better than sausage on my pizza.
What is first person?
100
The author of "Upon the Burning of Our House."
Who is Ann Bradstreet?
100
It's an element of plot that is made up of complications.
What is rising action?
200
A regular rhythmic pattern.
What is meter?
200
A work of literature that is nonfiction, short, expository, and prose?
What is an essay?
200
When deciding which shirt to buy, it's a good idea to first consider color.
What is third person?
200
The literary period of the poem.
What is the Puritan Period (or Puritanism)?
200
In a plot, it's the event that starts the central conflict and begins the rising action.
What is the "narrative hook"?
300
Four feet per line
What is tetrameter?
300
A work of literature that is fiction, narrative, short, and prose.
What is a short story?
300
For my birthday, he gave me a beautiful ball of lint
What is first person?
300
The main subject of a piece of Puritan literature.
What is God, Christianity, or the Bible?
300
It's a technique used by poets to help make meter, rhyme, or just to sound "flowery."
What is "inverted word order" or "inversion"?
400
A poem that doesn't tell a story.
What is a lyric poem?
400
A work of literature that is nonfiction, descriptive, book-length, and written in verse.
What is a poem?
400
When you see a bear, you'd better run.
What is second person?
400
The rhyme scheme of "Upon the Burning of Our House."
What is couplets?
400
The number of stressed syllable in a "foot."
What is "one"?
500
A work of literature that is fiction, descriptive, short, written in verse, and formatted in a script.
What is a drama?
500
Bob's car is a beautiful shade of banana yellow
What is third person?
500
The meter of "Upon the Burning of Our House."
What is iambic tetrameter?
500
The correct order of the elements of plot.
What is exposition, narrative hook, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.
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