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Definition of a comparison using like or as
What is a simile?
100

What is rhyme scheme?

the pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza

100

The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot.

What is foreshadowing?

100
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
Animal that can be lead upstairs but is impossible to lead downstairs.
What is a cow?
200
Definition of a figure of speech in which an idea, animal, or things is described as if it were a person. Give an example.
What is personification?
200

the use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning

What is onomotopoeia?

200

The main character or hero of the story.

What is the protagonist?

200

A person, place, thing, or event that stands for something else and has its own meaning.

What is a symbol?

200
Shortest complete sentence in the English language.
What is go?
300
Name 3 different literary tools used in poetry that start with an "R".
What is a run on line, rhythm, repetition, rhyme scheme and/or rhyme?
300

the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words

What is alliteration?

300

two lines of verse that rhyme a-a

What is a couplet?

300

Name 3 different poets read in class.

What is Langston Hughes, Emma Lazarus, Claude McKay, etc.

300
Coin that has 118 grooves around the outside.
What is a dime?
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Example of a common literary tool: "To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun......... To fling my arms wide In the face of the sun..........."
What is repetition?
400

What does diction refer to?

the author's choice of words

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A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from history, literature, sports, government, etc.

What is an allusion?

400
Talking about rhyme scheme, using the words: Words rhyme stirs climb, what is the rhyme scheme?
What is abcb
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Animal that is able to drink 30 gallons of water in under 10 mintues.
What is a camel?
500

concrete details which appeal to the senses so that we can see or sense what is being written about

What is imagery?

500
Name the fourteen-line poem that follows one of a number of different rhyme schemes and state the rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet? What is ABABCDCDEFEFGG?
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The attitude a writer takes toward an audience, a subject, or a character.

What is tone?

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The collection of Black Americans relocating to major cities in a period of great expansion in art and literature.

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

500
Made from dead skin in your house.
What are dust particles?
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