Figurative language
It's raining cats and dogs!
What is idiom?
Division of lines into groups.
What is a stanza?
Types of sentences:
Many famous people have pets.
What is declarative?
No one was surprised that Marian loved to sing.
What is "When Marian Sang"?
I could hear the popping and crackling as mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me.
What is Imagery?
Blind as a bat. Dumb as a box of rocks.
What is a simile?
A short, witty, humorous poem that has a rhyme pattern of AABBA.
What is a limerick?
Verb:
The apples "were" very crunchy.
What is a Linking verb?
Druggists mixed love potions to help people charm their beloved. Pharaohs could keep several wives, but one wife was customary for everyone else.
What is "Egypt"?
Action Verb, Linking Verb, Predicate Nominative:
Who MOWED the lawn?
What is action verb?
A comparison of two unlike things that don't use the words "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
A Japanese poem that has 5,7,5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
Past, present, and future:
Some blocks in the Great Pyramid "weigh" fifteen tons.
What is present?
Brian needed a fire and got porcupine quills in his leg.
What is "Hatchet"?
I sat in the dark room of the spaceship and looked down at Earth.
What is "Goodbye to the Moon"?
My teacher is so old... she taught cavemen how to make fire.
What is a hyperbole?
Allison allotted her allowance money to spend at the movies.
What is alliteration?
Subject-Verb agreement:
Both Lynn and Gene (feels, feel) cold all of the time?
What is feel?
Kings Landing is filled nineteenth-century houses that once belonged to real families.
What is "A Week In the 1800s"?
"Didn't my great-granddaughter tell you I was sick?" Mother Fletcher shot a glance in the direction of the girl.
What is "Mother Fletchers Gift"?
Sound words: moo, oink, pow, bang, quack, blop, and plop.
What is onomatopeia?
The words of a poem are written to create the shape of the theme.
What is a concrete poem?
Possessive Nouns:
The dinosaur discoveries are the (ranch's, ranchs')
What is ranch's?
why did so many small dinosaurs die at Ghost Ranch.
What is "Dinosaur Ghosts"?
The rise in poverty will unlock the Pandora’s box of crimes.
What is Allusion?