Authors
What line is repeated most often in Jimmy Santiago Baca's poem "I offer this poem"?
"I love you"
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
A word that shows action in a sentence.
Verb
What are poetry, drama, and prose?
He was the first poet to speak at the inauguration of a president.
Robert Frost
Using extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
Fill in the missing two words: "Shall I compare thee to a -"
Summer's Day?
A word that describes a noun or pronoun. Ex. The GREEN grass grew after the rain.
Adjective
Iambic pentameter
a line of verse with five metrical feet (or 10 syllables) each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
What did Walt Whitman do during the civil war?
He worked at a hospital for wounded soldiers
"Two roads diverged in a _______ wood" (fill in the blank)
yellow
a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.
Adverb
In MLA format for the first page of an assignment, this should be typed on the first line of the upper lefthand corner of your page
Your first and last name
She wrote Abuelito Who.
Sandra Cisneros
My dog is a pig when it is time for supper.
Metaphor
"Who used to laugh like the letter k"
Abuelito Who by Sandra Cisneros
a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause
what is a preposition?
Name three elements of proper email etiquette! (Ex: clear subject line)
Judge's disgression
He was a pioneer of Imagism, a literary movement which sought to clearly express precise images through poetry.
William Carlos Williams
Fill in the blanks:
so much _____ upon a _____ wheel barrow ____ with rain water beside the _____ chickens
depends, red, glazed, white
List three conjunctions
some possible answers - for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so
What the acronym RATS stands for