Skills and Fig. Lang
What poetry skill uses like or as to compare things?
Simile
What is a stanza?
What is a line?
The separation of words into groups
Although they are called sentences, a line is part of a stanza
Describe the chairs from the poem My First Memory on page 32
Heavy oak chairs
Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same is an example of what figurative language?
Hyperbole
We learn to hate the ball, hate the hoop, hate the fallen snow is an example of what poetry skill
Repetition
12
In the Harlem poem... a dream is said to dry up like a?
raisin
How many stanzas make up this poem?
13
A few weeks later, in the wood
I came across Miss Riding Hood
These two line have what we call a ?
Rhyme Scheme
How many lines make up the 1st stanza in the poem My First Memory on page 33?
8
What poem talks about little cat feet?
Fog
What word is repeated and used to emphasize the feeling of the town?
Somewhere
A speakers/writers attitude towards something is referred to as their ?
Tone
How many stanzas make up the poem Harlem on page 45?
4
What poem contains an aardvark, a dragon, and an elephant?
Ask Aden
Give an example of alliteration used in stanza 2
Deep despair
Explain what a hyperbole is and give 2 examples.
Extreme exaggeration
How many lines make up the poem Why We Play Basketball (page 62) Fog (page 113) and Ask Aden (page 15) when added together
35
What was riding hood wearing at the end of our first poem?
A furry wolfskin coat
What was the final score of the game?
4-2