Literary Language
A comparison of two things using like or as
What is a simile?
A repetition of the same or similar types of sounds
What is a rhyme?
What the term "mahogany" refers to in the story
What is a fox?
This animal keeps escaping the dogs
What is the problem in the "Mahogany Fox"?
What is the southwest?
A word that sounds like the actual noise it makes
What is an onomatopoeia?
A poem that uses a 2,4,6,8,2 pattern.
What is a cinquain?
The taken raptor bird in "The King's Helper"
What is a hawk?
This animal challenged the gladiator and lost
What is a dog?
Sam escaped to the privacy of the Catskill mountains in this state
What is New York?
A type of writing that does not use the literal meaning, which includes metaphors, similes, and others
What is figurative language?
A group of lines repeated at intervals throughout a poem or song.
What is a refrain?
In the "Life and Death of a Western Gladiator", the terrible creature it described.
What is a diamondback rattlesnake?
The noise that Koyo cannot stop hearing
What is singing or crying?
The name of the mountain mentioned in "The Mahogany Fox", was also a character that bit in another story. Name that mountain. (Hint: it was an animal that you would not want to run or trip on.)
What is rattlesnake mountain?
An apparent contradiction that makes sense when the sentence is understood as a whole.
What is a paradox?
Syllables that have a higher pitch and longer duration than the regular ones in a poem
What is stressed?
The "Old Sly Eye" that tried to kill the main character
What is a panther?
How Brian wound up stranded and alone
What is from a plane crash?
"Old Sly Eye" lived in the northeastern part of the US. Name the state he lived in.
What is New Hampshire?
When a writer inserts an interruption in the story that regards past events.
What is a flashback?
A division of four or more lines having a fixed length, meter or rhyming schemes
What is a stanza?
This hurt Brian in "Hatchet"
What is a porcupine?
The long arms of this tried to take him under the water and keep him
What are the arms of a giant pacific octopus?
The reason Brian was on the plane in the first place.
What is he was visiting his father for the summer?