Weekly Vocabulary
Definition: The father and ruler of a family or group of people
What is Patriarch
Definition: Without rule; absence of government
What is Anarchy
The narrator is the character in the story.
What is 1st person point of view
A type of poem that is generally short and expresses deep personal feelings.
A. Epic Poem
B. Lyric Poem
C. Free-Verse Poem
D. Concrete Poem
What is Lyric Poem
Identify the type of imagery, what sensory image is being used and the word(s) in which you were able to tell:
After the long run, he collapsed in the grass with tired and burning muscles. The grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.
What is Touch/Feel, Evidence is grass tickled his skin and sweat cooled on his brow.
What is Democracy
What is archenemy
When the principal called Martha into the office, she knew what it would be about. He looked uncomfortable and unhappy because he felt guilty about making Martha feel like she might not get the scholarship jacket.
What is 3rd person omniscient
The difference between fiction and poetry is that fiction is written in paragraphs and poetry is written in ___________.
What is a stanza
The moral or lesson the author wants the reader to learn.
What is THEME
Definition: The one or solve ruler of a nation
What is Monarch
Definition: The mother and ruler of a family or group of people
What is Matriach
The narrator is not a character in the story, yet he or she can only reveal what ONE character is thinking and feeling.
What is 3rd person limited
*DOUBLE JEOPARDY*
What is an extended metaphor?
What is a metaphor that is extended throughout a stanza, usually using multiple comparisons.
"Hope is a thing with feathers, that perches the soul and never stops at all..."
In a plot diagram, what part is the turning point of the story?
What is the climax.
Definition: The chief designer or builder of buildings
What is Architect.
Definition: Government characterized by numerous offices
What is Bureaucracy
The narrator can reveal what many characters are thinking, feeling, and doing.
What is 3rd person Omniscient
Why would a poet use short, rhyming lines in poem?
A. add a sense of movement
B. express the narrator's feelings
C. give the poem an urgent tone
D. create a steady pattern of beats
What is D. It creates a steady pattern of beats.
What is the feeling a piece of literature causes the reader to have, the overall feeling of a passage.
What is the mood
Definition: The first model of a piece of work
What is Archetype
Definition: Power by the elite
What is Aristocracy
Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist. Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank. He thought it would be fun to tie the pigtails together, or better yet, tie them to her chair. But most of all, he just wanted to pull one.
What is 3rd person limited
READ THE POEM BELOW:
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall;
WHAT DOES THE RAIN SYMBOLIZE?
What are bad times, negative life events, troubles in life, etc
CHARACTER TRAIT
I am willing to wait and endure without complaint.
Which character trait am I showing?
What is patience