Poetry
When two words end in the same sound
What is rhyme?
What is a simile?
A converstation between people.
What is dialogue?
Based on a 1920s book by F. Scott Fitzgerald and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
What is The Great Gatsby?
“Yertle the Turtle” by Red Hot Chili Peppers was inspiredby this Dr. Seuss book.
What is “Yertle the Turtle”?
A poem that celebrates a person, place, or thing.
What is an ode?
Giving human qualities to animals or non-living objects
What is personification?
A memory written into the story.
What is flashback?
A science fiction action film based on Ernest Cline's novel of the same name.
What is Ready Player One?
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by The Beatles was inspired by this Lewis Carroll tale that includes a white rabbit.
What is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland?
A type of poem with 3 lines in each of its six stanzas; each stanza is a complete sentence.
What is a triversen?
An exaggeration, such as "I'm so hungry that I could eat a cow"
What is hyperbole?
The turning point of a story, usually comes close to the end.
What is the climax?
An apocalyptic thriller starring Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali.
What is Leave the World Behind?
"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" by Elton John was inspired by this journey of four unlikely friends.
What is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?
A type of poem that has 14 lines, with an octave that sets up an issue and a sestet that responds to that issue.
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
A reference to a famous piece of literature or a historical figure/event
What is an allusion?
Point of view where a character is the narrator.
What is first-person narration?
Based on the epic novel by Cixin Liu, this science-fiction thriller is a new Netflix series.
What is 3 Body Problem?
“Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by The Police was inspired by this disturbing but ground-breaking novel by Vladimir Nabokov.
What is Lolita?
10 syllables in a line of poetry that follow the unstressed-stressed rhythm.
What is iambic pentameter?
The repetition of an initial consonant sound at the start of successive words.
What is alliteration?
The attitude of the author
What is tone?
Tom Hanks is a grumpy widower in this movie based on the Fredrik Backman novel with the same name.
What is A Man Called Otto?
“Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones was inspired by this book, the movie of which was released in Jan. of 2024.
What is The Master and the Margarita?