Literary Devices
Pro nun see yay shun
Poetic Forms
Vocabulary
Media
100
Seriously funny and awfully pretty.
What are examples of an oxymoron?
100
truculence
What is truck yuh lunts.
100
Poetry that deals with amusing happenings.
What is humorous poetry?
100
Form of inference in which the reader gathers information, considers general thoughts, and comes to a decision.
What is drawing conclusions?
100
Name three different forms of media.
What is radio, tv, internet, ...etc.
200
An intentional and extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
200
reign
What is rayne?
200
Poetry that tells a story to entertain.
What is narrative poetry?
200
The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words or stressed syllables.
What is alliteration?
200
What are two visual or sound techniques used in the movie 42?
Accept any legitimate answer.
300
Smooth-laid like thatch with heavy dew.
What is an example of a simile?
300
philodendron
What is fill uh den drun
300
Short poems expressing personal feelings and emotions that may be set to music and often involves the use of regular meter.
What is lyrical poetry?
300
The pattern of rhyming lines (e.g., ABAB, ABBA).
What is rhyme scheme?
300
Any form of mass communication.
What is media?
400
The name of Britain’s biggest dog was “Tiny”.
What is irony?
400
memorandum
What is mem uh ran dum
400
An amusing poem that is composed of five lines. Lines 1,2, and 5 consist of seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five to seven syllables and rhyme with each other.
What is a limerick?
400
To be informed.
What is the purpose of nonfiction text?
400
On page 592 in your literature book, in what ways can you compare the mood of this painting to the mood of the poem?
Like the poem, the mood of the painting is reflective. The poem asks questions about deferred dreams, such as "do they fester and run?" The expression on Hughes's face shows he is lost in his thoughts.
500
In short, life is a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard.
What is a metaphor?
500
leonine
What is lee yuh nine?
500
Poem composed of rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set patterns.
What is free verse?
500
Combining different ideas and facts to reach a new whole.
What is synthesizing?
500
On page 593 in your literature book, there is a picture of Nelson Mandela. It portrays him as ______. Why?
The photograph portrays Nelson Mandela as joyful and/or happy. When Mandela became president, racial segregation ended. So, he is in celebration.
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