Parts of Speech
A person, place, or thing
What is a noun?
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The pencil sharpener was screeching over the talking students.
What is personification?
A group of lines together on a poem.
What is a stanza?
The author of the Baseball in April short stories.
Who is Gary Soto?
An action word.
What is a verb?
Words that describe a character's personality.
What are character traits?
This coffee shop is an ice box!
What is metaphor?
When a phrase is repeated regularly in a poem.
What is refrain?
This character wanted braces to fix his crooked teeth.
Who is Alfonso from Broken Chain?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
When a character is telling the story from his or her perspective.
You snore louder than a freight train!
What is hyperbole?
The person narrating the poem.
Who is the speaker?
This character finds a dog and returns him to his owners.
Who is Fausto?
The specific name of a person, place, or thing.
What is a proper noun?
Describes a character's role in the story.
What are character types?
Those two sisters fight like cats and dogs.
What is a simile?
The author of a poem.
What is a poet?
Sara's brother.
Who is Charlie?
What is an adjective?
The lesson or message the author wants readers to learn.
What is theme?
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
The beat created by the words in a poem.
What is rhythm or rhyme?
Who is the author of The Summer of the Swans?
Betsy Byars