Word Roots
This word, built on the Latin room -JECT-, means to throw something out, usually in a fast or violent way.
What is eject?
This type of word, such as I, he, she, it, or they, takes the place of a noun, often a proper noun.
What is a pronoun?
A compound noun that includes the word any.
What is anyone (or anybody, or anything, etc.)?
This myth describes how the Iroquois tribes united.
What is Haiawatha the Unifier?
Type of verse with no pre-set structure or rules? (Hint: Whitman wrote this type of verse.)
What is free verse?
The Latin root in the word disappear that means to cease (stop).
What is DIS?
This word, like trust, is an abstract noun.
What is hope, or thought, or imagination, etc.
This word refers to a writer's choice of words.
What is diction?
The type of story myths often tell about how something began.
What is an origin story?
The type of rhyme in the words bold and cold.
What is exact rhyme?
These are three words that have the Latin root MULTI.
This ending indicates a singular subject as in this example:
She walk_ to class every day.
What is s?
This part of an argument (persuasive text) states an opposing point of view.
What is a counterargument?
This is a universal theme of the myth, Hiawatha the Unifier.
"Groups are stronger when united" or "diversity strengthens a united group."
This type of poem or passage lets the reader hear the speaker's thoughts, experiences, and personality.
What is dramatic monologue or stream-of-consciousness.
Astronaut, astrobiology, and astonomy have the common Greek root ASTRO meaning this.
What is star?
A complete sentence must contain these two types of words. (One of these may be missing in a command.)
What are a verb and a subject?
This rhetorical device uses the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginnings of a sequence of sentences or lines of text as in this example:
It was the best of times.
It was the worst of times.
It was the age of innocence.
It was the age of experience.
What is anaphora?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
This type of theme applies to all people at all times.
What is universal theme?
In this stanza, the words hoarse and worse are examples of this type of rhyme:
The silence screams for hours--
I'm beginning to feel hoarse.
And my stomach's feeling sour
Or worse.
What is slant rhyme or off rhyme.
This is the meaning of the Latin root RECT.
What is right or correct?
These are three types of proper nouns that must be capitalized.
What are names of people, names of place, names of months, titles, etc.?
This rhetorical appeal creates time pressure, stating that change must happen NOW or that the argument is especially timely (significant at that time).
What is kairos?
This type of them applies only to a particular group of people and sometimes only at a particular time.
What is culturally specific theme?
Walt Whitman was fond of this techique of listing things, like people doing different jobs or features of the natural world.
What is cataloguing or catalogue?