A comparison of two or more things using “like” or “as”.
What is a simile?
100
Repeating words to create emphasis.
What is repetition?
100
What poetic device is found in the following example?
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.
What is simile?
100
Robert Frost is predominantly associated with rural New England.
What is sentence?
100
Way to capture the reader’s attention.
What is by using an attention getter?
200
A comparison of two or more things not using “like” or “as”.
What is a metaphor?
200
When two words share the same final sound.
What is rhyme?
200
What poetic device is found in the following example?
Betty Botter bought a bit of butter.
The butter Betty Botter bought was a bit bitter
And made her batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter makes better batter.
What is alliteration?
200
Went to high school in Massachusetts.
What is fragment?
200
This type of writing will be in the 10th grade STAAR test.
What is persuasive writing?
300
Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
300
When a words pronunciation imitates its sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
300
What poetic device is found in the following example?
Opportunity only knocks once.
What is personification?
300
In 1897, attending Harvard as a non-degree student.
What is fragment?
300
The purpose of the conclusion is this.
What is to restate everything that the essay was about?
400
Giving human traits or characteristics to an object or idea.
What is personification?
400
Number of iambs contained in a line of Iambic pentameter.
What is 5?
400
What poetic device is found in the following example?
Poverty is a cage that is difficult to escape.
What is metaphor?
400
Many of his poems speak of rural tasks like apple picking and fence building.
What is run-on?
400
In the first body paragraph, the writer should provide the reader with this.
What is his/her side of the issue?
500
Use of the five senses to create “pictures” when reading.
What is imagery?
500
When one idea or sentence is stretched over two or more lines.
What is enjambment?
500
What poetic device is found in line 4 of the following example?
Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Frost had a number of very gloomy years because family life was difficult.
What is run sentence?
500
In the third body paragraph, the writer must do this to the other side’s argument.