Who Did It?
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, I became a famous baseball player and died in a tragic plane accident while providing emergency supplies to survivors of an earthquake in Nicaragua.
Roberto Clemente
This word that makes the same sound when spoken.
What is onomatopoeia?
My name is Edgar Allen Poe and I wrote a poem with lots of repetition and even used repetition in the title.
What is Bells, Bells, Bells?
A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
What is an adjective?
These words are often used to indicate direction, time, place, position.
What is a preposition?
My name is Lewis Carroll and I wrote a poem with words I invented about a fictional creature named the Jabberwocky. Who slays this creature at the end of my poem?
Who is a young boy?
Martin Luther King used this type of figurative language in his famous speech, "I have a dream..."
What is Repetition?
My name is Margarita Engle and I write children's books. When I was a child I wanted to grow up to become this kind of animal. I loved being surrounded by animals and many of my books are about curious things that animals do.
What is a horse?
A word used to describe an action
What is a verb?
This is a word that replaces a noun in a sentence and an example is he, she, him, her.
What is a pronoun?
I wrote a poem called The Road Not Taken about a man who is walking down a road and needs to make a decision about which path to take.
Who is Robert Frost?
This type of figurative language exaggerates something so much that it would literally be impossible in order to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
The movement that takes energy from one place to another.
What is a wave?
The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject
What is a predicate?
These words provide additional information about the noun and include words like who, whose, that and which.
What is a relative pronoun?
I write children's books and when I was a child I wanted to grow up to become a horse. I loved being surrounded by animals and many of my books are about curious things that animals do.
Who is Margarita Engle?
This is a play on words since words often have a double meaning and many jokes are made with them.
What is a pun?
An animal that is caught and killed by another for food.
What is the prey?
a word used to identify any of a class of people, places, or things
What is a noun?
A sentence that combines two or more independent clauses without proper punctuation or conjunctions
What is a run-on sentence?
I was the 16th president of the United States, I helped abolish slavery, was self taught because I loved to read books, became a lawyer and was assassinated at age 56.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
If I won the lottery and died the next day, this figure of speech would be used.
What is irony?
This animal is known for its ability to change color and camouflage to hide itself from their predators.
What is a chameleon?
A word that modifies or tells how an action is being done.
What is an adverb?
The relationship between two events or situations, where one of the two is the cause of the other
What is cause and effect?