Figurative Language
Genre
Poetry
Composition
Hodgepodge
100
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
What is alliteration?
100
A non-fictional account of a person's life--usually a celebrity, an important historical figure, or a writer--written by that actual person.
What is an autobiography?
100
A division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme; similar to paragraphs in prose, they include connected thoughts and divided by a space.
What is a stanza?
100
A short piece of writing that tells a person's thoughts or opinions about a subject.
What is an essay?
100
Ordinary language people use in speaking or writing, as distinguished from the heightened language of poetry.
What is prose?
200
A figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things, with the help of “like” or “as”. For example, “John is as slow as a snail.”
What is a simile?
200
A tale about elves, dragons, hobgoblins, sprites, and other fantastic magical beings set vaguely in the distant past ("once upon a time"), and often including magic, charms, disguises, talking animals, and a hero or heroine who overcomes obstacles to "live happily ever after."
What is a fairy tale?
200
A Japanese form of poetry consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables with very brief descriptions of nature.
What is Haiku?
200
A written or printed communication addressed to a person or organization and usually transmitted by mail.
What is a letter?
200
This reading and writing skill means a person restates or expresses something in a shortened form, either aloud or in writing. For example, a ship hits an iceberg and sinks.
What is summarizing?
300
A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea, or an animal is given human characteristics. For example, “The sky weeps.”
What is personification?
300
A story that lies somewhere between myth and historical fact and which, as a rule, is about a particular figure or person, often focusing on a specific location or historical figure. For example, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
What is a legend?
300
A poem written as a pattern on a page; the actual shape of the lines of text may create a swan's neck, an altar, a geometric pattern, or a set of wings to create an extreme graphic impact on the reader's attention.
What is concrete poetry?
300
A short and usually amusing account of an incident, especially a personal or biographical one, that is usually combined with other material such as essays.
What is an anecdote?
300
This reading strategy means a person glances at or over or reads something hastily.
What is scanning?
400
A hidden comparison between two seemingly unlike things without using "like" or "as". For example, “He is the black sheep of the family”.
What is a metaphor?
400
Timeless stories with symbolic events believed by many people but that is not true; a story told in an ancient culture to explain a practice, belief, or natural occurrence. For example, the Greeks have many of these.
What is a myth?
400
A light or humorous verse form of five verses of which lines one, two, and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet, with a rhyme scheme of aabba.
What is a limerick?
400
A daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations; this may also be referred to as a diary.
What is a journal?
400
Like its counterpart, this pre-reading strategy means reading or going rapidly over something without noticing details.
What is skimming?
500
A word which imitates the natural sounds of a thing, creating a sound effect that mimics the thing described and making the description more expressive and interesting. For instance, “The gushing stream flows in the forest”.
What is onomatopoeia?
500
A lesson given through some sort of usually humorous animal story using personification wherein they demonstrate a moral lesson at the end. For example, The Tortoise and the Hair.
What is a fable?
500
Poetry without rhythms and rhyme schemes, that do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules, yet still provide artistic expression; however, it still allows poets to use alliteration, rhyme, or rhythms to get the effects they consider suitable for the piece.
What is free verse?
500
Writing or speech that attempts to convince the reader or audience to adopt a particular opinion or course of action. For example, television commercials fall under this composition genre.
What is persuasion?
500
These each involve a solitary speaker. One is a speech given by a single person to an audience, while the other is a speech one gives to oneself, thinking out loud, so the audience better understands what is happening to the character internally.
What are monologue and soliloquy?
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