Vocabulary 1
A grouping of poetic lines
What is a stanza?
These are the shortest of the sentence-building tools
What are words?
A poem that is three lines long with 5 syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and 5 syllables in the final line.
What is a haiku?
You can use this punctuation in titles and to express time
What is a colon?
When a non-human object is given human characteristics
What is personification?
When a poet chooses to break a line in the middle of a sentence
What is enjmabment?
Gasping from shortness of breath, Mafatu raised his head and looked about.
What is a tool?
This is what the topic is called in your sentence
What is a subject?
What are tools?
Buzz, splat, and cuckoo are examples of this word
What is onomatopoeia?
This device includes sensory details
What is imagery?
This is a fancy word for "verb"
What is predicate?
When there are intentional pauses in the line
What is a ceasura?
In the sentence below, identify the two predicates:
The tiny dragon lost interest in Eragon and awkwardly explored the room.
lost
explored
The great garbage patch is a ______________ of trash
What is congregation?
This is the repetition of a line
What is an anaphora?
What is grammatically unacceptable about this sentence:
The dog was bitten by the manWhat is passive voice?
This word is a synonym for trash
What is refuse?
In this kind of sentence the subject of the sentence performs the action.
What is an active sentence?
These are groups of words but contain a subject and a predicate.
What are clauses?
A figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly.
What is an allusion?
What piece of punctuation follows independent clauses?
What are colons?
Deep regret for a wrong committed
What is remorse?
Figure out what is incorrect about this sentence:
My favorite cake is made of: carrots, flour, butter, eggs, and cream cheese icing.
This clause has a subject and a verb but not a complete thought
What is a dependent clause?