Terms
A type of folktale certain groups believed to be real at one time.
Myth
Repeated ending sounds in two or more words.
Rhyme
Time, Crime, Slime, Prime
"Loo-Wit: Fire Keeper" was about this type of landform.
Volcano
This person was the authors of the Chronicles of Narnia series.
C.S. Lewis
A pair of rhyming lines in a poem.
Couplet
Words that sound like the sound they are describing.
Onomatopoeia
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Alliteration
"Hallucination" is an example of this genre of story.
Science Fiction
The title of the book Mr. Alex is reading to the 8th grade.
IQ
This story element included pictures, maps, and diagrams printed alongside the text.
Graphic Feature
Repeated first sound in two or more words.
Alliteration
Bang, Crunch, Splat, Whoosh, Boing
Onomatopoeia
In "Loo-Wit: Fire Keeper" the two chiefs are related in this way
Brothers
This volcano, located in Washington, erupted in 1980. Two of the stories in the text were about this volcano.
Mount St. Helens
This type of poetry does not need to include any rhyme or meter.
Free Verse
Repeated consonant sounds
Consonance
Clint picked invisible stickers and skipped into the city.
Assonance
"Out of the Dust" was written during this historic time period
Great Depression or Dust Bowl
Name one book the high school classes have read this year.
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Giver, Screwtape Letters
The regular, repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. Similar to rhythm
Meter
Repeated vowel sounds
Assonance
Little tigers attack stuffed elephant toys.
Consonance
The silver lizards in "Hillside Thaw" represent this part of nature.
Stream/River
This author wrote many young adult novels about nature including Hatchet.
Gary Paulsen