Personification
What is personification?
Giving something non-human, such as an object, human qualities or characteristics
In many stories, this color symbolizes purity, innocence, and is often associated with characters who are good or heavenly.
What color is it?
White
This sense is described by details of color, shape, size, and appearance, like the "bright blue sky" or "the light of the fire"
What is the sense?
Sight
A stanza
What is memoir writing?
Memoir writing is when you write about a specific memory or experience from your own life
What is Mr. Turco's favorite club soccer team?
Inter Milan
Which Disney movie takes place at Pride Rock?
The Lion King
What is being personified in the sentence below:
The wind howled through the trees.
Wind
In many stories, this color is usually used to represent something that is evil or deadly.
What color is it?
Black
This sense is invoked by details such as "the chirping of birds" or "the brassy chaos flooded through the house"
What is the sense?
Sound
True or False: All Poems have to rhyme
False
True or False: A memoir is the same thing as an autobiography
False
Which team won the NBA Finals in 2025?
Oklahoma City Thunder
Which movie involves a lamp and a magic carpet?
Aladdin
What human action is given to the object in this sentence?
The old house groaned in the wind.
Groaned
This color is the most common in national flags, used to represent things like bravery, or land.
What color is it?
Red
This sense is conveyed through descriptions like "the boat felt cold and smooth under my hand"
What is the sense?
Touch
In poetry, only certain lines have numbers next to them. How are lines numbered in poetry?
Every 5th line has a number next to it.
Example: 5, 10, 15, 20, etc.
What do we call the message or lesson the author wants readers to learn from their experience?
The theme
Which team won the baseball World Series in 2025?
Los Angeles Dodgers
What is the name of the bear in The Jungle Book?
Baloo
What two human actions are given to the object in the sentence below?:
"Time marched on relentlessly, refusing to slow down for anyone."
Marching and Refusing
This color is used to show greed or jealousy.
What is the color?
Green
The following words can be used to describe this type of sense: "sweet," "sour," "bitter," "salty," or "spicy"
What is the sense?
Taste
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem below?
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
AABA
What do memoirs need to be based on in order to be considered non-fiction?
Truth or real events
Which NFL team has their logo on only one side of their helmets?
What is the name of the toy store in Toy Story 2?
Al's Toy Barn
What is the human characteristic given to the weather phenomenon in the sentence below:
"The storm clouds gathered ominously, plotting their attack on the unsuspecting town."
Plotting
This Disney character usually wears yellow and blue; their name is also a form of color symbolism.
What is their name?
Snow White
The phrase "the musty, damp air of the cellar" primarily uses adjectives appealing to which two senses?
Smell and touch
Sally sells seashells by the seashore is an example of what?
Alliteration
What is the title of the memoir that Mr. Turco has been writing?
Tremors
Who was the youngest player to score 10,000 points in the NBA?
Lebron James
What’s the name of the giant whale in the movie Pinocchio?
Monstro