Very Poetic!
Who's Who?
Valuable Vocabulary
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A Novel Concept
100
The title of the W.B. Yeats poem we studied as a class?
What is 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree'?
100
The poet who wrote 'Dreams'.
Who is Langston Hughes?
100
The use of concrete objects, characters, colors, or events to represent abstract ideas, themes, or emotions.
What is symbolism?
100
A common noun and a proper noun in this sentence:
'Look at that house, I said, it looks like Mexico.'
What is 'house' as a common noun and 'Mexico' as a proper noun?
100
Where Esperanza's family is from.
Where is 'Mexico'?
200
This quote from 'Dreams' in an example of this poetic technique:
'Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.'
What is a metaphor?
200
The names of the two friends Esperanza rides a bike with in The House on Mango Street.
Who are Lucy and Rachel?
200
A word with the same or similar meaning of another word (funny and humorous).
What is a synonym?
200
The pronoun in this sentence:
'We are tired of being beautiful.'
What is 'we'?
200
The word for the events in a story.
What is plot?
300
The term for words that rhyme in a single line of poetry, such as:
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
What is internal rhyme?
300
The poet who wrote the poem we studied called 'Daffodils'.
Who is William Wordsworth?
300
The emotional feeling or atmosphere a writer or poet creates in a reader.
What is mood?
300
The two words the comma goes between in the following compound sentence:
'I have inherited her name but I don't want to inherit her place by the window.'
What is 'name, but'?
300
The tone of the line:
'I'll shake the sky
like a hundred violins.'
What is passionate, empowered, or ambitious?
400
A adjective from the poem 'Daffodils' that means cheerful, merry, or full of high spirits.
What is jocund?
400
The name of the author who wrote The House on Mango Street.
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
400
The definition of 'imagery'.
What is descriptive language that appeals to the human senses to create a clear, vivid mental experience for the reader?
400
The TWO adjectives in this sentence:
'I had to look where she pointed—the third floor, the paint peeling, wooden bars Papa had nailed on the windows so we wouldn't fall out.'
What are 'third' and 'wooden'?
400
A story where a character recounts events directly from their own perspective using personal pronouns like 'I', 'me', 'my', and 'we'.
What is a first-person narrative?
500
Yeats's line: 'I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;' is an example of these TWO poetic techniques.
What is alliteration and onomatopoeia?
500
The names of Esperanza's three siblings in The House on Mango Street.
Who are Carlos, Kiki, and Nenny?
500
The definition of 'vignette' in literature.
What is a short, descriptive piece of writing that captures a single moment, character, or setting rather than a full plot?
500
An example of three verbs.
What is 'runs', 'seems', 'is'?
500
Three details about the setting of The House on Mango Street.
Where is a low-income Latinx neighbourhood in Chicago, Illinois during the early 1980s?