Poetry
True or False: All poems need to rhyme.
False
the purpose and point of the paragraph
What is the main idea/central idea?
His mother gave him a long list of chores.
What is the simple predicate of the sentence?
What is gave?
a comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
The thought of eating a rat is ABHORRENT to most people.
What is the Horrible/ Nasty
the "paragraph" of a poem
What is a stanza?
the moral/lesson learned
What is theme?
Did you see the boy run He is going to the store.
What is missing?
What is a question mark?
giving an object human qualities
What is personification?
Over the holidays, families can show their GENEROSITY by donating food to the homeless.
Willingness to give
the space between stanzas
What is a line break?
A conclusion reached by using an educated guess.
What is an inference?
Which is the correct spelling?
A. acomplish
B. accomplish
C. accomplissh
D. acomplich
What is B. accomplish?
Tom taught Tina to play tennis.
What is alliteration?
When you read, you often come to words that you don't know. One way to find out a words meanings is to look around for __________________________.
What are Context Clues?
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I passed ELA
I hope you did too!
What is the rhyme scheme?
What is ABCB?
anything that helps to prove that something is or is not true
What is evidence?
The boy said, I am going to the store.
What is missing?
What are quotation marks?
BOOM!
BAM!
Bzzzzzzz!
Ringgggg!
What is onomatopoeia?
The garrulous boy rambled on continuously as he told his mother about his day at school.
What does garrulous mean?
What is Talkative?
the "sentence" of a poem
What is a line?
diagrams, timelines, captions, photographs, graphs, subtitles, headings
What are text features?
Which is correct?
A. The teacher Mrs. Jones teaches 7th grade ELA.
B. The teacher, Mrs. Jones, teaches 7th grade ELA.
C. The teacher "Mrs. Jones" teaches 7th grade ELA.
What is B. The teacher, Mrs. Jones, teaches 6th grade ELA.
an exaggeration; For example, I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
What is hyperbole?
While she was indifferent to golf, her husband was an avid fan.
What is eager