Vocabulary 1
What is onomatopoeia?
What are the following words: on, over, outside
A grouping of poetic lines
What is stanza?
This part of speech conveys the idea of going over, under, around or through something.
What is a preposition?
This type of poem has fourteen lines and ends in a couplet. Shakespeare is famous for writing these kinds of poems.
What is a sonnet?
This is the repetition of a certain word or phrase
What is anaphora?
What grammatical term bolded below?
The penguins, standing politely in two rows of six each, looked curiously at Mr. Greenbaum.
What is a participial phrase?
When there are intentional pauses in the line
What is caesura?
You can use this piece of punctuation to announce, introduce, or direct attention to a list
What is a colon?
When someone is forced to flee an area because they're in danger and cannot come back.
What is exile?
When a poet chooses to break a line in the middle of a sentence
What is enjambment?
What piece of punctuation follows independent clauses?
What are colons?
This poetic device exaggerates an idea
What is hyperbole?
Please correct this sentence:
The student was attacked by zombies
The zombies attacked the student.
Figure out what is incorrect about this sentence:
My favorite cake is made of: carrots, flour, butter, eggs, and cream cheese icing.
What is the placement of the colon? Remove the colon for a correct sentence?
Because Jude is forced to leave her homeland, she has become what?
What is a refugee?
What is wrong with this sentence:
The man was bitten by the dog?
What is passive voice?
A figure of speech, in which an object or circumstance from unrelated context is referred to covertly or indirectly.
What is alluson?
You can use this punctuation in titles and to express time
What is a colon?
This event was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings, and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s.
The citizens of Ukraine are going through a similar crisis to what civilians in Syria experienced.
What is a humanitarian crisis?
These phrases act like verbs, but they also describe, so they act like adjectives.
What are participle phrases?
This device includes sensory details
What is imagery?
What is the correct grammatical term for the bold phrase below:
Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles.
What is a prepositional phrase?
In this kind of sentence the subject of the sentence performs the action.