Poetry Vocab
Plot Pyramid
Root Words
Prefixes
Treasure Island
100
"Boom", "Bang" and "Zap" are all examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
100
The most important part of a story.
What is a climax?
100
Root word meaning to believe.
What is cred?
100
The meaning of the prefix equi-.
What is equal?
100
A form of torture where someone is dragged under the barnacles on a ship.
What is keel-hauling?
200
You use the 5 senses in this type of figurative language.
What is imagery?
200
This is a better term to describe the beginning of your story.
What is the exposition?
200
Make sure when you tell me something, you ________ correctly.
What is dict?
200
The prefix and meaning found in the word detention.
What is de- and from, away, opposite?
200
This is a person who is running from the cops!
What is a fugitive?
300
Giving something non-living human-like qualities.
What is personification?
300
Two types of action.
What are falling and rising?
300
What two roots mean write?
What is scrib/script and graph?
300
If you have the prefix found in the word different than your definition is...
What is apart or not?
300
This character was a notorious drunk.
Who is Billy Bones?
400
"In Hartsford, Harrisford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly happen" is an example of what figurative language.
What is alliteration?
400
The part of the story where LJS escapes with his life and Jim returns home.
What is the resolution?
400
The definition of the root found in the word specimen.
What is see?
400
The meaning of the prefix found in epic.
What is upon or on top of?
400
The biggest difference between the end of the movie and the book (hint: think the treasure)
What is whether the treasure is thrown overboard or kept?
500
"I'm so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of...
What is hyperbole?
500
When we filled out our pyramids to write our short stories, we did these three parts first.
What are the exposition, climax and falling action?
500
What is the root word and definition found in the vocabulary word meaning "word for word"?
What is ver and true?
500
The meaning of circummort.
What is around death?
500
When a pirate is handed this, he knows that there will be a trial and perhaps his death.
What is the black spot?
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