A limerick has a rhyme scheme of...
a. ABAB CDCD
B. AABBA
c. There is no rhyme scheme
What is
B. AABBA
100
"Thank you, thanks,
for going out and returning,
for rising up
and setting down."
These lines from "Ode to Thanks"display the poet's use of
a. alliteration
b. personification
c. onomatopoeia
What is b. personification
100
Which of the following is always the first sentence of your essay?
a. thesis
b. attention grabber
c. focus area
What is b. attention grabber
100
Which of the following is always the LAST sentence of the entire essay?
a. thesis
b. focus areas
c. clincher
What is c. clincher
100
A synonym for DISHEVELED is
a. sloppy
b. neat
c. orderly
What is a. sloppy
200
A narrative poem
a. tells a story
b. paints a picture in a reader's mind
c. is usually about nature
What is a. tells a story
200
The cursive crawl, the squared-off characters..." This line from "Writing" display the poet's use of
a. alliteration
b. personification
c. onomatopoeia
What is
a. alliteration
200
Which of the following is always the LAST sentence of the introductory paragraph of your essay?
a. thesis
b. clincher
c. transition word
What is a. thesis
200
A Works Cited page is a document which
a. tells your reader what sources you read when you researched and wrote your paper
b. gives your reader parenthetical documentation for your paper
c. provides your reader with a list of sources actually cited within your paper
What is c. provides your reader with a list of sources actually cited within your paper
200
GINGERLY and carefully may be seen as
a. synonyms
b. antonyms
What is a. synonyms
300
A haiku
a. have five lines
b. has a rhyme scheme
c. has seventeen syllables
What is c. has seventeen syllables (5-7-5)
300
"...now a Mississippi steamboat pushes up the night river with a hoo-hoo-hoo-oo..."
These lines from "Jazz Fantasia display the poet's use of
a. alliteration
b. personification
c. onomatopoeia
What is c. onomatopoeia
300
You should always write your notes on your note card word for word without paraphrasing?
A. True
B. False
What is B. False
300
If you feel FORLORN, you feel all of the following EXCEPT
a. forgotten
b. lonely
c. loved
What is c. loved
400
Who is the captain in "O Captain! My Captain!"
a. General Lee
b. the captain of a ship
c. President Lincoln
What is c. President Lincoln
400
What kind of poem expresses the thoughts and feelings of a poet but does NOT tell a story?
a. narrative poem
b. free verse poem
c. lyric poem
What is c. lyric poem
400
Which of the following belongs at the beginning of all of your body paragraphs?
a. attention grabber
b. focus areas
c. transition word
What is c. transition word
400
"A rusty car sits in my neighbor's backyard." The word "rusty" is a
a. noun
b. adjective
c. adverb
What is b. adjective
400
The City of Hiroshima was _____ after a nuclear bomb struck it during World War II
a. loathed
b. appalled
c. annihilated
What is c. annihilated
500
"But, leathery hands full of wet brown life...." These lines from "Birdfoot's Grandpa" display the poet's use of
a. personification
b. onomatopoeia
c. imagery
What is c. imagery
500
"You can't order a poem like you order a taco."
This line from "Valentine for Ernst Mann" displays the poet's use of
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. imagery
What is a. simile
500
Which of the following belongs AFTER a transition word in your concluding paragraph?
a. re-worded thesis
b. attention grabber
c. focus areas
What is a. re-worded thesis
500
"A rusty car sits in my neighbor's backyard." The word "in" is a
a. adverb
b. preposition
c. verb
What is b. preposition
500
Which of the following words is synonym for EMBARK?
a. leave
b. run
c. stay