Grammar
Name the Subject(s) in the following sentence:
Craig and I are going to the store tomorrow.
Craig and I
BONUS: Which word in the previous sentence is a pronoun?
Define: Retro-
Backwards
Define: Stanza
A "chunk" in a poem/a paragraph within a poem.
Define: Simile
A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as."
What Harry Potter House is known for its intellegence?
Ravenclaw
Name the verb(s) in the following sentence:
The box is completely wet.
Is
Define: Vent-
To come
What is the rhyme scheme in the following:
"If you go to Aw-WawHoo And walk down the beach,
You’ll notice a sort-of-a-bird called the Sneetch
In fact, there are two sorts of Sneetches you’ll find:
the Star-Belly kind, and the Plain-Belly kind.
the Star-Belly Sneetches have bellies with stars.
the Plain-Belly Sneetches don’t have them on thars."
A, A, B, B, C, C
BONUS: Who wrote this poem?
What is the definition of "alliteration?"
Words in a group that start with the same consonant (non-vowel) sound.
Who is known as the "Allfather" in Norse Mythology?
Odin
What is the subject in the following sentence?
Go to the store and drop this package off at the post office.
(You)
BONUS: Which word is the direct object?
What PRS chunk means "to believe?"
Cred-
What poetic device is used in the following:
"And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back."
Rhyme Scheme
What literary devices in the following:
"And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!"
Metaphor (with eyes of flame)
BONUS: What is the name of this poem?
What type of tree is a Christmas tree usually?
Pine/Evergreen
What words are in the COMPLETE predicate in this sentence?
There are three annoying dogs outside.
There are
BONUS: Name all of the adjectives in the sentence.
What PRS chunk means "to faith/trust?"
Fid-
BONUS: Define Fidelity
What is the difference between "repetition" and a "refrain?"
Repetition: Only a few words/lines are repeated.
Refrain: A whole stanza is repeated.
Name 3 examples of personification.
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Name all the planets in our solar system. (NOT PLUTO!)
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Label all the words with the part of speech they are in the following sentence:
The dogs and I are going on a walk.
The (article) dogs (subject noun) and (conjunction) I (subject noun) are (helping verb) going (verb) on (preposition) a (article) walk (object of the preposition)
Define: -ive
Tending to/do
In the poem, The Rose that Grew from Concrete, what was the rose a metaphor for?
The author/poet (Tupac)
Define: Oxymoron
Contradicting terms
BONUS: Give an example of an oxymoron.
If you start at the North Pole and then go south 3000 miles, go east for 400 miles, then go north for 3000 miles, where will you be?
The North Pole