Poems
Vocabulary
Literary Terms
POV
Misc.
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In this poem author Robert Frost debates staying to take in a lovely winter scene or continuing on to travel the miles he must go before he sleeps.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

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This word, meaning a set of straps, often often follows words like "safety" or "dog."

Harness

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This word describes a person, place, or thing

Noun

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These are the three types of point of view

First, second, and third person

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Both founded before the league itself, these two NFL teams have the oldest rivalry in professional football.

The Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears

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This poem addresses you and discusses how you left behind the voices that asked you to fix their lives because you knew what you had to do.

The Journey

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This word is often preceded by "trials", and means to go through great difficulty or struggle.

Tribulations

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This term describes SPECIFIC person, place, or thing. These types of words must ALWAYS be capitalized.

Proper Noun

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What POV is this passage from "The Book Thief" written in?

I could introduce myself properly, but it’s not really necessary. You will know me well enough and soon enough, depending on a diverse range of variables. It suffices to say that at some point in time, I will be standing over you, as genially as possible. Your soul will be in my arms. A colour will be perched on my shoulder. I will carry you gently away.

First Person

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This Marvel superhero made his spectacular debut in the pages of Amazing Fantasy #15, before eventually getting an "Amazing" book of his own.

Spider-Man

3

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary..."

is the opening line of this poet's famous work "The Raven"

Edgar Allan Poe

3

A football team that has gone through a particularly tough season together might have a strong sense of this word, which means a feeling of fellowship or togetherness.

Camaraderie

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This statement in the introduction paragraph of an essay describes the main idea or argument that will be made throughout the rest of the piece.

Thesis

3

This passage, from A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury, is written in this point of view:

Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw stiff. He felt the trembling in his arms
and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle. There were four other men in
the Machine. Travis, the Safari Leader, his assistant, Lesperance, and two other hunters,
Billings and Kramer. They sat looking at each other, and the years blazed around them

Third Person

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This singer has 32 Grammys to their name, the most of any individual artist.

Beyonce
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In this poem by Rabindranath Tagore tells us that we must "knock on every alien door to come to your own"

12 from Gitanjali

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If I believe that my friend Lauren must be rich because she went to school at Ladue I am guilty of making a false _____

Assumption

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In most writing a collection of lines or sentences that is placed apart from the rest of the work is called a paragraph. In a poem it is called this instead.

Stanza

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This unusual point of view makes YOU into the protagonist, and has the author describe what YOU are thinking and feeling.

Second person

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This famous film character made his first appearance in 1962's Dr. No, and his most recent in 2021's No Time to Die

James Bond

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In "The Road Not Taken" this poet tells us that we cannot get hung up on thinking too much on the choices we didn't make in life.

Robert Frost

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The character or force that opposes the main character in a story.

Antagonist

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This type of poem is composed of three lines, consisting of five syllables, then seven syllables, then five syllables again.

Haiku

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Third Person point of view has two forms, omniscient, where the narrator describes the thoughts and feelings of every character in the story and is able to know everything, and this form, where they only describe the thoughts and feelings of the main character, and are restricted by what they know.

Third person limited.

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This film composer wrote the music for such famous films as Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, and Superman

John Williams

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