Figurative Language 1
compares two things using like or as
What is a simile?
objects are given human qualities
What is personification?
Jacks's teacher's name
What is Miss Stretchberry?
So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.
The reason the blue car is important to Jack
What is the blue car hit and skilled his dog, Sky?
What to write if the author doesn't want his/her name on a poem
What is anonymous?
suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes; helps create a mental picture
What is imagery?
two or more words that have the same ending sound
What is rhyme?
The amount of time Jack writes in his journal to the teacher
What is 10 months?
Jack says that any words can be a poem. You've just got to _____
What is make short lines?
"The city lights were fireflies twinkling in the night."
Figurative Language
What is metaphor?
words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to
What is onomatopoeia?
using the same word or phrase over and over
What is repetition?
Jack's thoughts about poetry at the beginning of the book
What is boys don't write poetry?
Jack's feelings towards Sky at the end
What is he was sad and missed Sky very much?
A suggestion of what Miss Stretchberry can do to help cheer everyone up
What is she could make brownies for the class?
the repition of words with the same beginning sound
What is alliteration?
a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines
What is a stanza?
"I said I love that boy like a rabbit likes to run."
Figurative language
What is simile?
"My brain was pop-pop-popping."
Figurative Language
Wha is onomatopoeia?
Visited Jack's classroom
Who is Walter Dean Myers?
an exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
comparing tow things by stating that one thing is another thing
What is metaphor?
How Miss Stretchberry encouraged Jack to write more poetry
What is she typed his poems and displayed them in the classroom?
Jack's thoughts on Robert Frost
What is he thinks he has a little too much time on his hands?
"The tree tops sway from side-to-side against the Carolina blue sky."
Two types of figurative language
What is imagery and rhyme?