Poetry
Activities
Writers Knowledge
Insider Knows
Insider Knows 2
100

How many TOTAL syllables are in a haiku?

hint: add them up

17

100

This activity is when you support a fellow writer by adding onto their story.  

Pass-a-story

100

A person, place, or thing

Noun

100

What was the color of the "non-talking" wand?

Pink

100

Which was NOT a candy option?

Butterscotch

Starbursts

M&M's

M&M's

200

______note poetry is where we used cut out magazine words to make a poem.

Ransom 

200

Which was NOT an option for the classic story re-write activity?

Rapunzel 

The Tortoise and the Hare

Little Red Riding Hood 

The Tortoise and the Hare   

200

A word used to describe

example: it was blue, it was mean, it was smelly

Adjective 

200

What amphibian is the main character in Rowan's story?  

Newt
200

Our friend Piper likes to include what vegetable in many of her stories and anecdotes? 

Potato 

300

What is the rhyme pattern of a limerick?

AABBA

300

Which conflict option WAS on our roll-a-story sheet?

Drinks a strange purple potions

Falls off a cliff

Makes friends with a dragon

Drinks a strange purple potion 

300

A comparison using like or as

Simile

300

Happily ever after living with a snake was the end of who's story?

Josh's

300

Whos favorite song is "It's Raining Tacos."

Lincoln

400

Poets

Only

Entertain 

Mice

is an example of what time of poem? 

Acrostic 

400

Our Mad-Lib title was, "If I were ______"

President 

400

Starting at the end of the story is often how we write ______.

Articles 

400

When writing a superhero story, who chose the power of being a super genius?

Heidi

400

Not "Beauty and the Beast" but "Beauty and the B_____?"

Barbeque 

500

The opposite to opposite diamond-shaped poem is called...

Diamante

500

the activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or preparing news to be broadcast

Journalism 

500

What type of language do we avoid using in news articles but definitely use in poetry?

Flowery Language 

500

What is Miss Olivia's favorite book?

Frankenstein 

500

In Liliana's Limerick, the tree put on what to make the children stop pulling off it's leaves. 

Sleeves