Irregular Plurals
What's the plural of child?
Children
What's the past tense of BUY?
bought
... is poetry whose visual appearance matches the topic of the poem.
Concrete shape poem
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman
personification
...back to his cave in Giant Country, where he lives surrounded by nine other fearsome giants who spend every night guzzling down humans. Or, as the giants call them, human beans.
The BFG
What's the plural of tooth?
teeth
What's the past tense of sell?
sold
... is a style of poetry that is made up of seven lines. Lines 1, 4, and 7 have nouns. Lines 2 and 6 have adjectives. Lines 3 and 5 have verbs.
Diamante
....is a figure of speech that is used to make a comparison between two things that aren't alike but do have something in common. It does not use the words like or as.
metaphor
...is about Jess Aarons and Leslie Burke, two fifth-graders who become friends and create an imaginary land called...
Bridge to Terabithia
What's the plural of man?
men
What's the past tense of swing?
swang
Japanese poetic form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third.
Haiku
...is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.
Onomatopoeia
It is the terrific tale of Martine who after the tragic death of her parents must live on her grandmother's wildlife reserve in South Africa
The White Giraffe
What's the plural of wolf?
wolves
What's the past tense of BITE?
bit
... is a five-lined poem.The first line is one word. The second line contains two adjectives. The third line has three words ending in “ing.” The fourth line has four or more words that make a complete sentence. The fifth line is one word.
Cinquain
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
alliteration
When Lucy's family moves to an old house on a lake, Lucy tries to see her new home through her camera's lens, as her father has taught her -- he's a famous photographer, away on a shoot
Half a Chance
What's the plural of goose?
geese
What's the past tense of CUT?
Cut
it is poetry tells stories through verse. Like a novel it has plot, characters, and setting.
narrative poetry
....is a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase;
Idiom
The plot centres on Danny, a young English boy with a big wagon, and his father, William, who live in a Gypsy caravan fixing cars for a living and partake in poaching pheasants.
Danny and the Champion of the World