Poetry
What is the difference between a stanza and a line?
A line is a single statement, a stanza is a group of lines.
List five characters from your book.
WGTB - Kenny, Byron, Joetta, Momma, Dad, Rufus Fry, Larry Dunn, Grandma Sands
Crossover - Josh, JB, Mom, Dad, Alexis, Coach Hawkins, Vondie, Grandma, Uncle Bob.
What does the word onomatopoeia mean? How is it used?
Onomatopoeia is a sound mimicked with letters. The second one depends
What is the name of the ‘Math teacher’ fury/kindly one that attacked Percy?
Mrs. Dodds
What are three question words?
who, what, where, when, why, which, and how
What is a haiku?
A type of Japanese poem with 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and five again for the third.
Who is the author of WGTB/Crossover?
WGTB: Christopher Paul Curtis
Crossover: Kwame Alexander
What figurative language device is this an example of ‘Eleven elegant elephants elope excitedly.’? 🐘🐘🐘
Alliteration
What is Percy’s own motivation to go to the underworld?
He wants to find his mother
What is the first Harry Potter book?
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
What is a rhyme scheme?
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
What is the conflict of WGTB/Crossover?
WGTB: The racial tensions in Alabama, 1963
Crossover: Josh and JB have a conflict with each other when they start to drift away from each other and, especially JB, drift to girls instead of basketball. This then makes Josh feel abandoned and upset, thus making them angry and upset at each other
Give an example of personification
Mrs. Seton judges
Who is Are’s girlfriend?
Aphrodite
Who wrote ‘Frankenstein’?
Mary Shelly
What is mood vs tone in poetry?
Tone is how the author talks to the reader, mood is how the reader interprets it and feels about it.
Which point of view is the book written in?
Crossover: First person
WGTB: First person
Give an example of two figurative language devices of your choosing AND their definition.
Simile - The cat is like the night OR the crow is as loud as a gunshot.
Metaphor - The camera is a portal to a faraway world.
Personification - The clock struck midnight with an angry ringing.
Onomatopoeia - AHHHHHHHH.
Hyperbole - OMG! My mom’s going to kill me!!!
Alliteration - Crazy catastrophic cats.
What is Annabeth afraid of?
Spiders
What does the raven say in Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven”?
"Nevermore"
Give a definition and example of three of the following; allusion, irony, external/internal rhyme and imagery.
Allusion: indirect reference to something.
Irony; When something happens or someone says something unexpected/ when someone says something that signifies the opposite of what they mean.
Internal rhyme: Rhyming in the same line.
External rhyme: Rhyming at the end of each line.
Imagery: Makes the reader imagine a scene being described.
Which time period does the book take place in? What other events were happening near that time?
WGTB- 1963, President John F Kennedy is elected, later assassinated, Civil Rights acts.
Crossover- 2010s-2015, Black Lives Matter, advances in LGBTQ rights, 2016 presidential election
Name five of the six figurative language devices that we learned and what they are used for.
Simile - Comparing two things using like or as.
Metaphor - Comparing two things without using like or as.
Personification - Giving a nonhuman thing/being human traits.
Onomatopoeia - Sounds characterized as letters. (Example: AHHHH).
Hyperbole - Exaggerated claims or renditions not meant to be taken seriously.
Alliteration - The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What gifts does Percy get before he leaves Half-Blood Hill? (Hint: He gives one of the gifts to Grover)?
He got magic/flying/winged shoes and a pen-sword/pen that can transform into a sword/ Riptide.
What are three of Willaim Shakespeare’s plays?
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida