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."
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.
What is the subject in the following sentence?
After you go to the store, 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 words are in the COMPLETE predicate in this sentence?
There are three annoying dogs barking 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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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.