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What do we call paragraphs in poetry?

What are stanzas

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To give human qualities to inanimate objects.

What is personification?

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What strategy can you use if you are struggling through a text?

What is the #hashtagstragety

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing or idea.

What is a noun?

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This type of essay requires the reader to analyze two different works of literature

What is Literary Analysis?

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What form of poetry follows the 5/7/5 line form

What is haiku

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When a poet uses words that sound like the sound they are representing, such as "sizzle" or "ring."

What is onomatopoeia ?

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A word that describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

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In this type of essay, the author has to convince the reader to come to their side of the argument

What is a persuasive essay

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Shakespeare published 154 of these 14-line poems

What are sonnets

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Poems that don't rhyme are said to be written in this...

What is free verse?

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What should you do when you don't understand a question?

What is look for key words.

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A word that shows an action?

What is a verb?

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In this type of essay, the author is attempting to make a case for what they believe in

What is an Argumentative essay

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What is the structure of free verse

What is there is no structure

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The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds of several words within one line of poetry, as in "splashing horses stop in the silvery stream."

What is alliteration?

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What strategies can you use if you don't understand a word?

What are: break it apart (affixes), use context clues

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A piece of punctuation, not a period, that seperates two complete thoughts

Semi-colon ;

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In this type of essay (on PARCC), the author is asked to describe and give a summary of two or three texts

What is a research simulation essay

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What is the purpose of a limerick

What is to be humorous/funny

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The repetition of the vowel sounds inside several words within one line of poetry, as in "Go row the boat home."

What is assonance?

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What strategies can you use when a text is of no interest to you?

What are #hashtagstrategies and/or look at the question first
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Name the grammatical rule, or structure, that this follows:

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”


What is parallel structure

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In this type of essay, the author is asked to use their creative writing skills and textual knowledge to either write a letter, or finish a story

What is a Narrative Task essay