Poetry
This is the name of the last two lines of a Elizabethan sonnet
(x2)
What is a heroic couplet?
Identify and correct the error in the following sentence:
Remembered to clean up all the candy off the floor before the teacher came in.
What is a sentence fragment?
Correction: Add a subject before REMEMBERED
What is a FOIL character?
This is when the author places clues in a story that hints at an event that occurs later in the story.
(Take 100 points away from a team of your choice)
what is FORESHADOWING?
This is the difference between blank verse and free verse poems
what is both do not have a rhyme scheme, but blank verse has a meter while free verse does not?
this is when word(s) at the beginning of a clause or paragraph are repeated
(worth x2)
what is anaphora?
This is when a character addresses a person or object that cannot respond because they are either absent or an inanimate
Ex. After your Mom yells at you and leaves the house, you say, "Mom, I hate you!"
(x3)
What is apostrophe?
The device used in the following sentence:
The more you fail, the more likely you are to succeed.
(x3)
what is a paradox?
Identify the error in the following sentence:
I did not need to take out the trash, you took it out yesterday.
(take 300 points away from another team)
what is a run-on sentence?
repetition of a word(s) at the end of clauses or paragraphs
what is epistrophe?
This is the literal dictionary definition of a word
what is the denotation?
(connotation is a definition that includes the feelings and ideas associated with the word)
The definition of dramatic irony.
what is when the audience knows something that a character in the story does not know?
This is the rhyme scheme for a Petrachan Sonnet
If you get this correct, choose a team and deduct 200 points.
What is ABBA ABBA CDCDCD (or CDECDE)?
Identify and correct the error in the following sentence:
Walking toward the forest, the sun began to set.
If you get this wrong, your team loses 400 points!
what is a dangling modifier?
Correction: students need to add a subject that answers WHO is walking toward the forest
This is the difference between third person omniscient and third person limited
What is third person omniscient provides the thoughts and feelings for all of the characters while third person limited provides the thoughts and feelings for only one character?
the definition of situational irony
what is when the opposite of what you expect to happen happens?
these are the names of the stanzas in a Petrarchan Sonnet
What is an octave and a sestet?
The device used in the following sentence:
One hundred hares have escaped the zoo, so police are combing the area.
(A hare is a rabbit!)
what is a pun?
Identify the device use the in the following sentence:
(with tears): Sweet sweet darling, parting with you will be a sweet sorrow, especially since my love for you will never end.
What is an oxymoron? (sweet sorrow)
The device used in the following sentence:
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
what is chiasmus?