Poetry Definitions
Figurative Language
Poems From Greece
Tech Vocab
Potpourri
100
The "paragraph" of a poem
What is stanza?
100
A figure of speech that compares two unlike things and uses "like" or "as"
What is simile?
100
The poem "Medusa," what is the name of the hero who slays Medusa?
What is Perseus?
100
Parts that all work together.
What is a system?
100
True or False: The goal of technology is to improve the way people live.
True
200
A word or words that imitate a sound
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects
What is personification?
200
Which of the three poems we have read is free verse?
What is "Medusa"?
200
The use of knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is technology?
200
What war was occurred as a result of Eris' golden apple?
What is the Trojan War?
300
The beat of the poem measured in syllables
What is rhythm?
300
"The wind was as loud as a lion's roar."
What is simile?
300
She is the goddess of wisdom and war strategy.
Who is Athena?
300
This word means no longer used.
What is obsolete?
300
This is another name for the purpose of a technological system.
What is a goal?
400
A style of poetry that does not have a rhyme scheme or rhythm pattern.
What is free verse?
400
"Her heart was a tornado after the breakup."
What is metaphor?
400
In "The Apple of Discord," which three goddesses fought over the apple?
Who are Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite?
400
A person who uses science and technology to solve problems.
What is an engineer?
400
In the process of baking bread, what part of the system occurs when the oven in turned and the bread dough is put in the oven.
What is input?
500
The mood or feelings of the poem
What is tone?
500
"The sun kissed my cheek on the bright summer day."
What is personification?
500
She is the goddess of chaos and discord.
Who is Eris?
500
Information a technological system uses to monitor and adjust itself to meet its goals.
What is feedback?
500
This word means the result or product of a system.
What is output?
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