What is poetry without any rules; rhyme scheme, length, , etc.
100
What was Scrooge's first name?
What is Ebenezzer
100
The wind is a whispering voice. The literary device used here is ______________. Name one.
Daily Double- What is the other?
What is metaphor and personification
100
Who wrote A Christmas Carol?
Who is Charles Dickens.
100
The type of poetry that tells a story is called what?
What is narrative poetry.
200
How many lines does a traditional sonnet contain?
What is 14.
200
What was the name of Scrooge's former fiance'?
What is Belle.
200
What is a simile?
What is a comparison of unlike things using like or as.
200
Who wrote Birches?
Who is Robert Frost.
200
Where a story takes place is called the ___________.
What is a setting.
300
Who wrote "The Names"
Who is Billy Collins
300
What did Scrooge say you should be buried with through your heart if you went about with a Merry Christmas on your lips?
What is a spring of holly through your heart.
300
What is the literary device that gives hints of events to come?
What is foreshadowing.
300
Who wrote The Highwayman?
What is Alfred Noyes.
300
What is a protagonist?
What is main character that is preceived as the good guy or hero.
400
Sonnet are usually about _______________.
Daily Double
Haiku are usually about _______________.
What are love and nature.
400
What is the name of Scrooge's former boss during his apprenticeship?
Who was Fezziwig.
400
Name three of the five questions associated with characterication.
What is Answers vary
What they look like, act, say, think or feel, etc.
400
Who wrote The Raven and A Tell-Tale Heart?
Who is Edgar Allen Poe.
400
What is an antagonist?
What is the bad guy or villian.
500
Quote the first full stanza of "The Road Not Taken".
Two roads divereged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both.
But be one traveler long I stood, and looked down one as far as I could,
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
500
Name the ghosts that visited Scrooge.
Of which was he most afraid and why?
What is Marley, Past, Present, Yet to Come.
The unknown.
500
When words share the same VOWEL sounds we call it this literary device.
What is assonance.
500
Who wrote Sonnet 16?
Who is Shakespeare.
500
Recite the first stanza of "The Man in the Glass (Mirror)".
If you get what you want in your struggle with self, and the world makes you king for a day.
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself and see what that man has to say.