Figurative Language
This is when the same word or phrase is used over and over again.
What is repetition?
Who is Jack's teacher that teaches him about poetry?
Who is Miss Stretchberry?
This is the narrator of the journal/book.
Who is Jack?
What is onomatopoeia?
This helps you create a mental image by suggesting how someone or something looks, sounds, smells, feels or tastes.
What is imagery?
This is what Jack thought about poetry in the beginning of the book.
What is poetry is for girls?
This is Jack's favorite poet (who also visited the school).
Who is Walter Dean Meyers?
This makes something seem larger or more important than it really is.
What is a hyperbole?
This is to give an object or animal human like characteristics.
What is personification?
This is one way Jack's teacher encouraged him to write poetry.
What is typing up his poems?
OR
What is displaying his typed up poems with photos in the classroom?
This was the most inspirational (and anticipated) moment in the book for Jack.
What is when Walter Dean Meyers visited the school?
These are two or more words with the same ending sound.
What is rhyme?
This has a repetition of the same beginning sounds.
What is alliteration?
How long does Jack write poems in his journal?
What is 10 months?
This is the poet that Jack thinks "has too much time on his hands".
Who is Robert Frost?
This compares two things by stating that one IS another thing.
What is a metaphor?
This is a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together usually in a repeating pattern or rhyme.
What is a stanza?
Jack says that any words can be poems, you just have to do what?
Jack suggests that Miss Stretchberry do this to cheer up his classmates after reading his poem about Sky.
What is bake brownies?