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Figurative Language
Poetry
Creative Writing
Grammar
Vocabulary
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a comparison of two or more things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
a type of poetry that describes an object and is shaped the same as the object the poem is describing.
What is a shape poem?
100
where and when a story takes place
What is setting?
100
find the mistake: He rode his bike two the grocery store.
What is "two = to"?
100
emerge
What is appear?
200
a comparison of two or more things that are not alike or connected
What is a metaphor?
200
a poem that takes on the shape of a diamond
What is a diamante poem?
200
the people, objects, or animals in a story
What is a character?
200
find the mistake: James and Alicia doesn't enjoy their new math class.
What is "doesn't = don't"?
200
hasten
What is to hurry?
300
giving humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman
What is personification?
300
the name of this poem: I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm whose long-gone limbs I remember as if they were my own.
What is "Where I'm From"?
300
what happens in a story
What is conflict?
300
find the mistake: "Take out your pencil for the test" said Ms. Jefferson.
What is missing comma after test?
300
meander
What is wander about?
400
a nonliteral phrase that can be used to imply something else
What is an idiom?
400
a structured 5 line poem. The first, second and fifth lines, the longer lines, rhyme. The third and fourth shorter lines rhyme. (A-A-B-B-A)
What is a limerick?
400
the struggle or problem in a story
What is conflict?
400
find the TWO mistakes: Tanya don't have her work in so she isn't passing 8th grade.
What is "don't = doesn't" and missing comma after in?
400
pertinent
What is relevant or applicable?
500
an extravagant exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
500
a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
What is a haiku?
500
the big idea or moral of a story
What is theme?
500
find the TWO mistakes: Mr. Thomas writing class wrote a story and it's theme is redemption.
What is "Thomas's" and "its"
500
meticulous
What is careful and precise?