How the waterlilies fill with rain
until they overturn, spilling water into water
then rock back, and fill with more
What is IMAGERY ?
200
What does kleptoMANIA mean?
What is CRAZY ?
200
What kind of language means exactly what it says?
What is LITERAL?
200
The way the mockingbird represents both Boo Radley and Tom Robinson is known as ___.
What is SYMBOLISM ?
200
The epic falls into this category of poem.
What is NARRATIVE ?
300
I am offering this poem to you,
since I have nothing else to give.
Keep it like a warm coat
when winter comes...
What is SIMILE ?
300
What does imMORTal mean?
What is DEATH ?
300
The warmth of the sun wrapped its healing arms around me.
What is PERSONIFICIATION?
300
This genre expresses the main idea in a piece of writing more clearly than any other.
What is NON-FICTION?
300
The official term for a story told in the form of a play.
What is a DRAMA ?
400
Isn't favorite dessert is hard to choose.
The frozen dream of ice cream in a cone.
The pursuit of fruit inside a crust.
Or cake--iced and sliced--upon a plate.
What is INTERNAL RHYME ?
400
What is ClaustroPHOBIA ?
What is FEAR ?
400
What is the rhyme scheme of the following:
O what is that sound which so thrills the ear,
Down in the valley drumming, drumming?
Only the scarlet soldiers, dear.
The soldiers coming.
What is ABAB?
400
Name one way in which an author and her/his writing can be influenced.
What are: BOOKS THEY'VE READ
PLACES THEY'VE LIVED OR VISITED
THE LIVES THEY'VE LIVED
THINGS/EVENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO THEM
400
This type of story pokes fun at specific genres while maintaining the basic structure of that genre.
What is PARODY ?
500
A fraction of a flower
can still carry the power of its scent.
So subtle is the lingering lilac.
Momentarily here and then
delightfully disappearing into memory.
What is ALLITERATION ?
500
What does CARDIology mean ?
What is HEART ?
500
Water droplets fall.
Liquid silver confetti.
Rain sounds like applause.
What is HAIKU ?
500
Descriptive words which appeal to the senses create images in the mind of the reader and these words are often used by the author to create the _______.
What is MOOD ?
500
A type of story used by certain cultures as a basis for religion and to explain natural phenomena before science was employed to do it later.