Poetry Terms
Poetry Terms
Reading Skills
Personal Narrative
Grammar
100
Repeating the same beginning sound in more than 2 words
Alliteration
100
The feelings the author wants the reader to feel while they read
Mood
100
What is a paragraph?
A grouping of sentences all on the same topic within a paper
100
What are two different techniques to an introduction?
Dialogue, action, thought, sound
100
give the proof for they're / there/ their they're = there = their =
they're = they are there = here their = our
200
An obvious exaggeration
Hyperbole
200
The pattern of rhyming lines (abab, abba)
Rhyme scheme
200
Telling the main idea of the story from beginning, middle, to end is...
summary
200
What are two techniques an author uses for an introduction?
dialogue, action, thought, sound
200
give the proof for 'to' to =
to = to (when also, so, and three DON'T work)
300
Giving non-human objects human characteristics
personification
300
A grouping of lines in a poem
stanza
300
Using what the text says + what you already know =
inference
300
The part in your story with the most detail. Uses all 5 senses (sight, sound, taste, tough, smell)
Slow Down Moment
300
Give the proofs for "two" and "too" two = too =
Two = three too = also, so
400
Comparison between two things using "like" or "as"
Simile
400
A grouping of words in a poem that appear IN THE SAME LENGTH
line
400
The lesson or deep message that the author wants the reader to understand is...
THEME
400
The lesson that you learned from your experience, or the REASON that you are telling that story.
SO WHAT?!
400
What is wrong in this piece of dialogue? "I told her not to, said Jenny."
Quotation mark should be after "to"
500
Comparison of two things WITHOUT using "like" or "as"
Metaphor
500
The images that come to mind when an author describes something using sensory detail
imagery
500
The person who is telling the poem (not the author).
speaker
500
What questions does Ba-da-bing stand for?
What were your feet doing? What were your eyes seeing? What was your reaction?
500
What is missing from this dialogue? "Don't tell him" whispered Sally.
comma after "him"
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