Shel Silverstein wrote Whatif and Jimmy Jet to entertain his audiences by bringing humor to the urge to worry about everything.
What is the author's purpose?
100
They tell you what line of the poem to look at (like page numbers for books)
What are line numbers?
100
The end words of the lines rhyme
What is end rhyme?
100
2 (refer to Maestro, page 312 and ask yourself what is there two of that make poetry stand out to other genres)
What is the number of stanzas in Maestro?
200
Tim tinkered with tiny trucks
What is alliteration?
200
Line 11 from Maestro ("or picked the melody with quick fingertips") has an example of this...
What is assonance?
200
Where is an example of a text feature on page 386 of the of the author yelling ARE
What is line number 5 or ?
200
There is a distinct rhyming pattern
What is regular rhyme?
200
16 (look at page 332, the poem Mad) You will tell me what there is 16 of and where those 16 are located
What is the line count of stanza 1 in Mad?
300
To persuade, to inform/describe, to entertain
What is author's purpose?
300
The rhyme scheme of Same Song. (options: regular, irregular, metered, unstressed)
What is irregular rhyme scheme?
300
On page 379, where is there an example of personification?
What is line number 21-23?
300
There is no distinct rhyming pattern
What is irregular rhyme?
300
My mother stood in the front yard
like a pin dot
searching for me.
Is an example of ______________
What is a simile
400
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is rhythm?
400
U/ and trimeter (you need to tell me what these two things are and for which poem, I Dream a World OR Life Doesn't Frighten Me)
What is the foot and meter of I Dream a World?
400
A metaphor (Lines 1-4 on page 358)?
What is fame to a bee?
400
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses and and all the King's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
This is an example of _____
What is regular rhyme?
400
My mother stood in the front yard
like a pin dot
searching for me.
Are line numbers ___________. (page 332)
What are line numbers 6-8?
500
How many feet per line/stanza
What is meter?
500
"In one corner of the room a lady harpist played tinkling melodies." (What is this- rhyme, personification, alliteration, or description AND what story is this from?)
What is an example of description from The All American Slurp?
500
In line number 2 we find an example of this in Emily Dickinson's "What I can do-I will-" on page 358
What is a simile
500
While my sixteen-year-old son sleeps,
My twelve-year-old daughter
stumbles into the bathroom at six a.m.
plugs in the curling iron
squeezes into faded jeans
This is an example of ______
What is irregular rhyme?
500
The stanza and line numbers where Jimmy Jet's face turns into a TV screen (page 391).