Poetry
Uncle Marcos
Definitions
Theme
Main Idea & Setting
100

A group of lines in a poem.

What is a Stanza?

100

Uncle Marco's favorite niece.

Who is Clara?

100

To not be able to be defeated.

What is invincibility?

100

The main idea of this text: Sam ate multiple pies and felt bad afterwards.

What is don't eat too many pies?

100

What is the setting of this story: A cat jumped the fence into the neighborhood's park, only to be immediately be greeted by a dog.

The neighborhood's park.

200

A group of words in a horizontal direction.

What is a line?

200

Who Uncle Marco's attempts to court.

Who is his cousin, Antonieta?

200

A moral rule or set of idea's over what is right and wrong that influence how a person thinks or acts.

What is a principle?

200

The main idea of the text: Sylvia was up all night doing an essay and she went to bed at 1:00 am. When she went to school she felt really tired and slept in most of her classes.

What is Slyvia stayed up and felt tired afterwards?

200

What is the theme: A cat jumped the fence into the neighborhood's park, only to be immediately be greeted by a dog.

Look before you jump.

300

To use imaginative language and form to capture a moment of understanding or insight

What is the author's purpose to lyric poetry?

300

What Uncle Marco's builds after his trip around the world.

What is a plane or "metal bird"?
300

To slowly degrade.

What is deterioration?

300

The main idea of the text: Sarah asks Lucas out to the school's dance. Lucas declines leaving Sarah heartbroken.

What is Lucas does not accept Sarah's invitation to the school dance?

300

What is the setting: The man went to his favorite store, and as he passed the horses at the entrance he came to see that someone had burned it down.

A store around in the late 1800's to early 1900's.

400

Something that can add visual effects and restructure lines/stanzas.

What is punctuation?

400

What Uncle Marco's does to get money alongside Clara.

What is prophesy?

400

Violently stormy or turbulent.

What is tempestuous?
400

What is the main idea: Timmy went to the park. He had a great time there, but he felt like something was missing when he went home. A few days later, he remembered that he left his phone there. Upon coming back, someone had smashed it, and the phone was no more.

Timmy left his phone at the park and someone broke it.

400

What is the setting: Timmy went to the park. He had a great time there, but he felt like something was missing when he went home. A few days later, he remembered that he left his phone there. Upon coming back, someone had smashed it, and the phone was no more.

At the park, in the modern cell phone age.

500

Hints at a comparison but doesn't name it directly.

What is implied metaphor?

500

How Uncle Marco's met his unfortunate demise.

What is to an unknown African Disease on a boat back home?

500

Hardening and thickening.

What is callousing?

500

The main idea of this text: Samuel didn't wan't his dinner. He ignored his parents telling him to eat his it, and he went to bed hungry, and he was offered the same thing for breakfast, but still refused. So, he went through the rest of his day hungry, until he gave in and tried the new food.

What is Samuel didn't want his dinner but eventually accepted it?

500

What is the theme: Timmy went to the park. He had a great time there, but he felt like something was missing when he went home. A few days later, he remembered that he left his phone there. Upon coming back, someone had smashed it, and the phone was no more.

Make sure you don't lose things.

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