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Literary Devices
Poetry/Rhyme Scheme
Stuff We've Read
Miscellaneous
100

What is this line an example of?

My love is like a red, red rose.

Similie
100

Within this line, which words rhyme?

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary

Dreary and weary
100
Who is Diane Guerrero?
Wrote the memoir piece
100
What instrument does Paul play?
Piano
200

What literary device is being used?


ick’s nephew needed new notebooks.

Alliteration
200
What is one type of poem we learned about in class?
- Sonnet

- Haiku

- I remember

200
Who gave a speech advocating for gun control?
Emma Gonzalez
200
What is minor key? What feeling does it evoke?
Sadness
300
What are sensory details? Provide an example.

Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. Writers employ the five senses to engage a reader's interest. If you want your writing to jump off the page, then bring your reader into the world you are creating.

300

Create a rhyme scheme for this passage:

I love to hear her speak, yet well I know 

That music hath a far more pleasing sound; 

I grant I never saw a goddess go; 

My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.  

ABAB
300
What happened in the memoir excerpt we read? What happened to her parents?
Diane was left alone after her parents were deported
300
How are poetry and rap similar?
Both have rhythm, maybe rhyme. Have a tempo and a style
400

What is it called when an author makes a comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as"?

Metaphor
400

Create a rhyme scheme for this passage:

The sun is shining bright

This is a lovely sight.

You are like a day of May

And I as worthless as hay.

This is poor Mr. Potter

Walking a road with his daughter.

Sometimes, your unspoken word

Is more important than that heard.

AABBCCDD
400
What is Logos? 
An appeal to logic 
400
Write a poem with a ABAB rhyme scheme.
[We'll see what you come up with]
500
Give an example of personification.
The door slapped me in the face.
500

Create a rhyme scheme for this passage: 


Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, 


And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. 


Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow 


From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore - 


For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore - 


Nameless here for evermore.

ABCBBB
500
How did Emma Gonzalez use pathos in her speech?
- Crying

- Emotions

- making people feel her pain

500
How is memoir different from autobiography? And WHY is memoir important?

Memoir Story about someone’s life, taken from personal experiences. More specific memories about certain events, people, places, or a time in your life. Not an account of everything that's ever happened