Poetry
The basic unit of meaning
What is a line in a poem?
Fame is a bee.
It has a song.
What is an example of end-stopped?
Word choice by writers and poets
What is diction?
A traditional story that explains how some aspect of the world came to be.
What is a myth?
Using context clues or prior knowledge
What is an educated guess?
The end of the line matches the completion of a thought or meaning
What is end-stopped?
O world! O life! O time
On whose last steps I climb,...
What is an example of enjambed?
A writer's sound or his/her personality on a page
What is voice?
A brief story featuring animal characters that teach a lesson.
What is an animal fable?
Expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker and often has a musical quality.
What is lyric poetry?
The thought or meaning continues past the end of the line to the next line or lines.
What is an enjambed?
The golden brooch my mother wore a
She left behind for me to wear; b
I have no thing I treasure more: a
Yet, it is something I could spare. b
What is a rhyme scheme?
The message or insight about life that a story expresses
What is a theme?
Examining details that help the reader determine the theme.
What are characters' qualities, conflicts and settings?
A pattern of rhyming sounds at the ends of lines
What is rhyme scheme?
Lines in poems that are grouped like a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
Letters (a,b,c,d, etc...) indicate the same rhyming sounds.
What is used to set the rhyme scheme in poetry?
Battle between good vs evil, love conquers all, friendship makes life meaningful
What are examples of themes in literature?
A reference book about words.
What is a thesaurus?
To read between the lines or guess based on clues given
What is an inference?
The only holiday in October
What is Halloween?
The national holiday celebrated every year on a Thursday.
What is Thanksgiving?
The holiday that is recognized in February, usually for people in love.
What is Valentine's Day?
The holiday that celebrates the birth of the United States of America.
What is Independence Day or the 4th of July?
The national holiday that is celebrated in December.
What is Christmas?