Skills
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
What literary device is this an example of: My mom made muffins.?
Alliteration
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
My brother was the Superman of the sixth grade, is an example of what literary device.
Metaphor
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 poet was part of the Harlem Renaissance?
Langston Hughes
"She Had Some Horses" showed which two main literary devices: Similes and metaphors, Anaphora and metaphors, or Alliteration and similes
Anaphora and metaphors
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 with the letter W.
Answer will vary.
What is the difference between 1st and 3rd person point of view?
First person is told by a character who is in the story and third person is told by a narrator not in the story.
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
Provide an example of a simile and explain the comparison.
Answer will vary