Poetry
Skills
Strategies
Context Clues
Figurative Language
100

This beats in a word are called this. 

What are syllables?

100

Setting, characters, plot, conflict and resolution build the foundation of these.

What are stories?

100

This means to say the main idea of what happened without saying all the minor details.

What is to summarize?

100

"The earrings were long and elegant, and they were of uncertain origin." Uncertain means....

What is unsure?

100

When we compare something to another thing using the word like or as it is called this.

What is a simile?

200

This is how we show the rhyme scheme in a poem.

What are alphabet letters?

200

This refers to the reason why you, as an author, would write a certain piece... to entertain, persuade, inform...

What is author's purpose?

200

Good readers always make sure they stop and do this while they are reading.

What is to ask questions, reread, and clarify?

200

Edward pretended, out of courtesy to Abilene, to listen. But, in truth, he was not very interested in what people had to say." Courtesy means...

What is kindness, politeness, or respect?
200

When we compare something to another thing by actually saying it IS that thing...

What is a metaphor?

300

These are groups of lines in a poem.

What are stanzas?

300

This skill refers to being able to analyze WHAT HAPPENED and THE REASON it happened...

What is cause and effect?

300

This strategy refers to making pictures in one's mind while reading a text.

What is to visualize?

300

The mouse was in Rosie's mouth, and Rosie was shaking him back and forth vigorously, growling and drooling. Vigorously means...

What is forcefully or aggressively?

300

I felt so ecstatic to go up 10 points on my map test that I felt as happy as a spring chicken.

What is a simile?

400

This is when the poet addresses an inanimate object directly (even though it can't talk back).

What is an apostrophe?

400

Bravery, personal growth, and immigration are examples all of the underlying message in Esperanza Rising - otherwise known as this.

What are themes?

400

When we think carefully about a text, breaking it down or judging it qualities, we are doing this. 

What is analyzing or evaluating?

400

The hound caught fox and snatched him up, displaying him triumphantly. Triumphantly means

What is with pride or with victory?

400

The MAP test taunted me with it's never ending questions. Luckily I passed it anyway because I worked so hard!

What is a personification?

500

This is the rhyme scheme of the following poem:

Donuts are my favorite treat

There's nothing else I like to eat

Yummy, sprinkled, pink, and round

I'd even eat one off the ground!

What is AABB?

500

If we analyze characters based on their actions, thoughts, and speech, we know their...

What are traits?

500

To think of what will happen next based on evidence from the story is to...

What is infer or predict?

500

In fact, Edward Tulane was so happy to be back among the living that he did not even take umbrage at being referred to as "it." Umbrage means

What is to take offense or to be insulted?

500

His focus on the MAP test was a laser, blasting out from his eyes.

What is a metaphor?