VOCABULARY
CONNOTATION
POETRY
HISTORY BUFF
THIS & THAT
100
The exact, literal meaning of a word
What is Denotation
100
Scented Aromatic Pungent
What is Pungent
100
Poetry without a fixed pattern or rhyme
What is Free Verse
100
The year Deamonte Love kept the toddlers safe while split up from their parents
What is 2005
100
Name two challenges Homer faced in October Sky
What is building a successful rocket, gaining the acceptance of his dad
200
The suggested or implied meaning or emotion associated with a word--beyond its literal definition
What is Connotation.
200
Blunt Sincere Unbiased
What is Blunt
200
A consistent pattern of rhyming words at line endings throughout a poem
What is Rhyme Scheme
200
Former slave who became an influential abolitionist, orator, and author
Who is Frederick Douglass
200
O Captain! My Captain! is an example of this type of poem
What is Allegory
300
The writer's choice of words and use of language
What is Diction
300
Thin Scrawny Skinny
What is Scrawny
300
A group of lines, usually similar in length and pattern, that form a unit within a poem
What is Stanza
300
16th U.S. President
Who is Abe Lincoln
300
The strategy of definition that demonstrates how the concept operates in the real world
What is Function
400
A writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject
What is Tone
400
Fretful Hesitant Apprehensive
What is Fretful
400
"A Man," "Moco Limping," and "Frederick Douglass" are all examples of what type of poem
What is Free Verse
400
The importance of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is it formally abolished slavery
400
The strategy of definition that explains what something is by showing what it is not
What is Negation
500
A central idea, message, or purpose of a literary work
What is Theme
500
Unique Odd Weird
What is Weird
500
A poem in which the characters, objects, or actions have a meaning beyond the surface of the poem
What is Allegory
500
The setting of October Sky (time and place)
What is 1957 in a coal mining town in West Virginia
500
TP-CASTT stands for
What is Title, Paraphrase, Connotation, Attitude, Shifts, Title, Theme
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