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I'm a Poet
The Five Things
Write or Wrong
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Figurative Language
100
This poet wrote "A Dream Within a Dream."
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
100
This is where or when a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
The first paragraph of an essay
What is the introduction?
100
I am Sal's best friend.
Who is Phoebe?
100
Two unlike things are compared using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
200
This poet wrote "Oranges" and "Family Photographs?"
Who is Gary Soto?
200
These are the people, animals, or personified objects that a story is about.
What are characters?
200
The last paragraph of an essay
What is the conclusion?
200
This is where Sal lived before her mother left.
What is Bybanks, Kentucky?
200
Two unlike things are compared without using "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
300
This poet wrote "Life Doesn't Frighten Me."
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
This is the name for the events within a story.
What is plot?
300
The middle paragraphs of an essay
What is the body?
300
This is what Phoebe calls Mike Bickle throughout the novel.
Who is the lunatic?
300
This is the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
400
This poet wrote "The Walrus and the Carpenter."
Who is Lewis Carroll?
400
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
400
A type of essay in which the writer shows similarities and differences between two topics
What is a compare-and-contrast essay?
400
Ben's mother lives here.
What is a psychiatric ward at a hospital?
400
This is an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
500
This poet wrote "Adventures of Isabel."
Who is Ogden Nash?
500
The central message or main idea of a story.
What is theme?
500
A type of essay in which the writer tries to persuade someone
What is an argumentative or persuasive essay?
500
This is the name of the game that Gramps and Sal play while returning home from Idaho.
What is the moccasin game?
500
This is when animals or objects are given human characteristics.
What is personification?