Nonfiction
Elements of Poetry
Name that Figurative Language
Sounds Like?
It's That Poem
100
What is an author's purpose for writing
What is to persuade, inform and entertain
100
Groups of lines form what in a poem
What is a stanza
100
Her smile was a bright as the sun.
What is simile.
100
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
What is alliteration
100
A three-line Japanese form that describes something in nature. The first and third lines each have five syllables, and the second line has seven.
What is a Haiku
200
This form on nonfiction writing explains the writer’s insights about an event or experience
What is reflective nonfiction
200
Rhyme
What is the repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words
200
That book was so popular, it flew off the shelves.
What is personification
200
I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there’s a pair of us-don’t tell! They’d banish us you know.
What is repetition
200
Poems are shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines to create a picture on the page
What is concrete
300
The author's basic beliefs about a particular subject
What is the author's point of view.
300
A type of literature that uses the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world in striking and imaginative ways
What is poetry
300
His singing was like nails on a chalk board.
What is simile
300
The buzzing bee flew away
What is onomatopeia
300
Poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker
What is lyric
400
This type of nonfiction structure explains how one event leads to another event.
What is a cause-and-effect relationship
400
Language that is not meant to be taken literally
What is figurative language
400
At five o’clock, the interstate was a parking lot
What is a metaphor.
400
But a better butter makes a batter better
What is alliteration
400
A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
What is free verse
500
Narrative Nonfiction
What is writing that tells the story of a real-life experience
500
Alliteration, onomatopoeia, and repetition are examples of what
What are sound devices
500
When I didn't make the team, my dream of being a star died.
What is personification
500
Meow
What is onomatopoeia
500
Poetry that tells a story
What is narrative poetry
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