Poetry
Vocabulary
Conventions
Figurative Language
More ELA
100

True or false: All poems need to rhyme

False

100

the purpose and point of the paragraph

main idea/central idea

100

 the boy ran away.

What does this need?

a capital T

100

a comparison using like or as

simile

100

List 3 prefixes and their meanings

answers may vary

200

The "paragraph" of a poem

Stanza

200

the moral/lesson learned

theme

200

 Did you see the boy run he is going to the store.

What's missing?

question mark at the end and comma after run

200

giving an object human qualities

personification

200

Effective persuasive writing or argument

Rhetoric

300

The space between stanza

line break

300

a conclusion reached by using an educated guess

inference

300

Which is the correct spelling?

a. acomplish

b. accomplish

c. accomplissh

d. acomplich

B

300

Tom taught Tina to play tennis.

alliteration

300

What the  three rhetorical (persuasive) logos, pathos and ethos mean 

logos = logic  pathos = emotion   ethos = ethics (is the speaker credible or believable)
400

Making the reader thing of something without using the actual word

Example - bright lights, wrapped presents, silver bells  =

Allusion

400

anything that helps to prove that something is or is not true

evidence

400

The boy said "I am going to the store."  

What tells us someone is speaking?

said and quotation marks

400

BOOM!

BAM!

Onomatopoeia

400

Where can a student find evidence to support their answer choice?  How can they use it?

Get evidence from the text.  Use quotation marks around it in your answer.

500

a 14 line poem with a couplet

sonnet

500

diagrams, timelines, captions, photographs, graphs, subtitles, headings

text features

500

Which is correct?

a. The teacher, Mr. Smith teaches 9th, 10th, and 11th grade ELA.

b. The teacher, Mr. Smith, teaches 9th, 10th, and 11th grade ELA.

c. The teacher "Mr. Smith" teaches 9th, 10th, and 11th grade ELA.

B

500

An exaggeration

hyperbole

500

What are the 3 (main) author's purposes?

persuade, inform, entertain