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Poetry vs. Prose
Simile and Metaphor
Idiom and Cliche
Mood and Tone
30 Second Mysteries
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Fact or Opinion: Poetry is the best way to express oneself creatively through words.
What is Poetry
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Which of the following is a metaphor? His hair is flame red. Like a flame, his hair is red. In the sunlight, his hair is flame. His hair is red as flame.
What is In the sunlight, his hair is flame.
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Which of the following is an example of an idiom? To get some rest To go to bed To hit the sack To go to sleep
What is To hit the sack
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How would you characterize the tone of the following sentence: “I won the game fair and square – and I’ll fight anyone who says differently!”? Angry Delighted Bored Deceitful
What is Angry
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Years ago, two men spent every day and night together. A third man waited nearby. Going outside could kill the men, but they went for short walks and drives nonetheless. Now, the men lead normal lives and can go outside as often as they like. Where were the men and what was their profession?
What is The men were on the moon and they were astronauts
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Which is a metaphor? The sky was a brilliant blue. The sky could not have been bluer. A lone cloud floated across the blue sky. The sky was an ocean of blue.
What is The sky was an ocean of blue.
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Which of the following could be added to the phrase, “My cat is black” to form a simile? And furry All over In color As ink
What is As ink
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What idiom expresses the same thought as the phrase, “to drive someone up a wall”? To drive someone into a wall To make someone upset To drive someone to the hospital To drive someone nuts
What is To drive someone nuts
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What do the tone of a piece of writing and a speaker’s tone of voice have common?
What is They are similar, but written tone is expressed in the author’s vocabulary and syntax
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David is a native New Yorker. In front of thousands of witnesses, he dies a gruesome death on a busy street. At the time of his death, David is doing the same thing hundreds of other people are doing. Onlookers cheer and wave during David’s demise. What killed David and in what country did he die?
What is David was killed by bulls in Spain
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Poetry or Prose? Uses words for their meaning, rather than sound and rhythm
What is Prose
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Which of the following sentences contains a simile? The mouse was quiet The mouse was whisper-quiet The mouse was quiet as a whisper The mouse’s footsteps sounded whispery
What is The mouse was quiet as a whisper
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How can an idiom be a cliché? By changing certain words By having more than one meaning By becoming popular By being overused
What is By being overused
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Tone is most clearly related to Emotion Capitalization Erudition Punctuation
What is Emotion
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A pane of glass separates an unknown man and a famous woman. The man stares at the woman for nearly three hours. Rather than get annoyed, the woman simply smiles back at him. What name is the woman commonly known by and what city is the man visiting?
What is The woman is Mona Lisa and the city is Paris
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Which of the following will help you understand poetry? Reading it more than once Reading it aloud Both
What is Both
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In the sentence, “When the cat stalks his prey, his is a shadow,” what two things are being compared?
What is The cat and a shadow
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What would happen if you substituted one word in an idiom for another – like if you said, “knock someone’s shoes off” instead of “socks”? The idiom would have the same meaning The idiom would take the opposite meaning The phrase you uttered would make no sense You’d be coining and entirely new idiom
What is The phrase you uttered would make no sense
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What kind of tone would you most likely find in a newspaper editorial that endorses a political candidate? Gloom and despair Optimism and enthusiasm Sarcasm and anger Fear and loathing
What is Optimism and enthusiasm
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People from around the world attend a series of professional sporting events, even though they know who will win. The players and referees claim that the game is not rigged and the final score does vary – but the outcome is always the same. Where is the winning team from and what sport to do they play?
What is The winning team is a basketball team from Harlem – the Harlem Globe Trotters
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What do all poems written in iambic pentameter have in common? They all have the same number of lines They all have the same rhyme scheme They all have the same number of syllables per line They all use ornate, descriptive language
What is They all have the same number of syllables per line
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What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
What is A simile uses “like” or “as”, a metaphor does not.
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Which playwright was listed as having coined a great number of idioms?
What is William Shakespeare
500
What is the tone of the following sentence? “Here we go again,” he moaned, as he watched the other team score yet another goal.
What is Frustration
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A man’s body is found 1000 feet below sea level. Drowning is not the cause of death. Where and how did the man die?
What is The man died of heat exhaustion in Death Valley