Show:
'On Remembering Light and Sound'
'The Storyteller'
'The Jacket'
'Dust of Snow'
Miscellaneous: Literary Nonfiction and Poetry
100
Helen Keller's age when she loses her sight and hearing.
What is 19 months or 1 year and 7 months?
100
The age of the tree in the poem. The____ of the tree tell us it's age.
What is 200 years old? What are the rings?
100
The jacket is a true story about part of the author's life. The Jacket is a _____.
What is a memoir?
100
The name of the poet of Dust of Snow.
Who is Robert Frost?
100
The order in which the events in a story occur.
What is plot or sequence of events?
200
A synonym for the word 'recollections' in the passage.
What is memories?
200
The word 'hues' in line 16 means _____.
What is colors?
200
The author compares the color of his new jacket to ______.
What is day-old guacamole or guacamole?
200
The cause of a dust of snow falling on the speaker.
What is a crow?
200
A true story about a person’s whole life, written and narrated by the person it is about.
What is an autobiography?
300
The name of Helen Keller's autobiography.
What is 'The Story of my Life'?
300
The literary device or comparison used in the line, "her face looks out to the world, a grandmother to us all."
What is personification or metaphor?
300
The literary device or comparison used in the line, "thin as a young tree."
What is a simile?
300
Conclusion about the change in the speaker's mood in the second stanza.
What is his mood has gotten better?
300
A word that imitates the sound it represents. Ex: Bam! Bang! Kapow!
What is onomatopoeia?
400
The name of Helen Keller's teacher.
What is Ann Sullivan?
400
The name of the literary device used throughout the poem, that gives the tree many human-like qualities and characteristics.
What is personification?
400
The number of years that the narrator wore his jacket.
What is 3 years?
400
The subject of the phrase "had rued" in line 8 of the poem.
What is "I"?
400
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point or evoke humor.
What is hyperbole?
500
The number of languages that Helen Keller knew.
What are five (5) languages?
500
The full name of the rings in the tree's bark.
What is growth rings?
500
Two unfortunate things that happened to the narrator during his years of wearing the jacket.
What is being bullied? What is getting bad grades/failing/forgetting state capitals, rivers of South America? What is losing friends? What is the dog (Brownie) ripping his jacket?
500
The number of syllables in each line of the poem.
What is 4-6?
500
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that forms a single unit.
What is a stanza?