Writing Craft
Lines grouped together in a poem separated by space.
What is a stanza?
Words that describe telling where, when, in what way, to what extent.
What are adverbs?
Two words that have the same meaning.
What are synonyms?
Crash! Boom! Meow! Creak! are all examples of this writing technique.
What is onomatopoeia?
The author's purpose for writing a text about how we should get off our electronic devices more and spend time outside and face-to-face.
What is to persuade?
Our paddles clang the metal sides
Turning the canoe into kettle drums
Until we rest our arms and glide
And note how canoe and water hum.
5 The sheet music we follow is the moon
That shines our path on the lake.
We listen to our booming tune,
The music a canoe makes.
The lines which make up the first stanza of this poem.
What is lines 1-4?
Types of nouns that show possession.
Two words that have the opposite meaning.
What are antonyms?
"You are as brave as a lion" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
What are adjectives?
The message/lesson the author wants the reader to take away from the text.
What is the theme?
Part of speech that names a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
The words surrounding an unfamiliar word that you can use to figure out the meaning of the unfamiliar word.
What are context clues?
"The computers at school are old dinosaurs" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
All of the artists' paintings sold out quickly.
Artists' is this type of possessive noun.
What is plural possessive noun?
The most important or central thought of a text (what the text is mostly about).
What is the central or main idea?
The book's pages are wrinkled.
"Book's" is an example of this type of possessive noun.
The suffix "-ness" means this.
What is "the quality of"?
"Rita heard the piece of chocolate cake calling her name" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
This type of writing is true, about an important time in the author's life, and is written in first-person point of view.
What is a memoir?
These explain or describe the central or main idea of text.
What are supporting details?
At the Henry Doorly Zoo, we saw baby bear cubs.
"Henry Doorly Zoo" is this type of noun.
What is a proper noun?
The word happy plus the suffix "-ness" is "happiness" which means this.
What is the quality of being happy?
Type of figurative language that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.
What is a simile?
The weather is chilly, yet the sun shining makes it a beautiful fall day.
Weather, sun, and day are all this type of noun.
What are common nouns?