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Vocabulary
Poetry Skills
Big 10 Literary Terms
Inferencing
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100
what something is worth
What is value?
100
the person who is "talking" in the poem
What is the speaker?
100
How a writing makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
100
The traffic on I-45 is stopped at 5:00 in the afternoon.
What is there must be an accident.
100
A sentence should always have a ______________, _________, punctuation, and should make sense.
What is subject and verb?
200
the reason a person does something, or the driving force to accomplish a task
What is motivation?
200
how a poem is organized, such as the stanzas, number of lines, etc.
What is organization?
200
M. Loisel worked 10 years to pay for an expensive necklace to replace the original, only to find out the original was practically worthless.
What is irony?
200
"I am the omnipotent king, and I will never give up my throne."
What is he believes he is all powerful.
200
This part of speech names a person, place, or thing.
What is noun?
300
a word that means the same or nearly the same as another word
What is synonym?
300
This part of the poem should tell the reader what the poem will be about.
What is the title?
300
We got caught skipping, so Joe threw me under the bus and said it was my idea.
What is idiom?
300
M. Loisel gave up the money he saved for a rifle so that his wife could buy a new dress.
What is he is generous?
300
This part of the sentence performs the action of the verb.
What is the subject?
400
relinquishing something of value in order to get something of more value
What is sacrifice?
400
This communicates a universal idea.
What is theme?
400
I talked to everyone on the planet to try to find out the final exam schedule.
What is hyperbole?
400
Why did General Zaroff begin hunting humans? How do you know?
What is he was bored with hunting animals? He said he wanted the excitement.
400
When you separate two complete sentences with a comma, it's called a __________ _____________.
What is comma splice?
500
implied meaning of a word vs. the dictionary meaning of a word
What is connotation and denotation?
500
This indicates the poet's attitude and can change throughout.
What is tone?
500
She believed she was the best weaer, so Arachne challenged Athena to a weaving contest, which led to her being changed into a spider.
What is hubris?
500
A girl approaches her friends at school and they immediately stop talking. What just happened?
What is they were probably talking about her and didn't want her to hear.
500
Fix the following: Their going to see "Catching Fire" it just came out a month ago.
What is They're going to see "Catching Fire"; it just came out a month ago.