Poetry
What type of sound device is being used in the following sentence?
Slithering snakes sneaked into the sea.
What is alliteration?
Two dogs and a cat _(lives / live)__ in that house.
What is live?
When identifying the direct object of a sentence, you first find the subject. Then you find the what?
What is the (action) verb?
A participial is a verb that acts like a(n) ____.
What is adjective?
A poem is usually organized into ______
What are stanzas?
This sound device repeats consonant sounds at the ends of syllables with different vowel sounds
What is consonance?
Joe and his sisters __(want/wants)__ to go to the beach this summer.
What is want?
After you find the subject and action verb of a sentence, what do you ask yourself to find the direct object?
What is Whom or What is receiving the action?
An infinitive phrase is the word "to" + ____ what part of speech?
What is a verb?
If a syllable is "stressed" it means that it has ___ (emphasis/ no emphasis)__
What is emphasis? (more sound on it)
What type of sound device is this example:
Pebbles resting in wet sand were scattered along the shoreline.
What is assonance?
_____ _____ trained strenuously in the years leading up to the Olympics.
(Athlete/have) or (Athletes/have) or (Athletes/has)
What is athletes have?
After you find the subject, action verb, and direct object of a sentence, what do you ask yourself to find the indirect object?
What is To whom/ For whom/ To what/ for what?
What sentence contains the infinitive phrase?
She told her mom to call her.
To Jenn, the Superbowl was boring.
I said good morning to my students.
What is She told her mom to call her.
The word "captain" has 2 syllables. Which syllable is stressed in this word?
"Captain"
What is "cap"-the first syllable?
This type of written poetry makes the poem more conversational and story-like.
What is free verse?
Does the following sentence have subject/verb agreement?
The cookies on the trays is delicious!
What is no? ("is" should be "are" because cookies is plural and the verb needs to be plural)
The doctors give Charlie many tests throughout the day.
The word "tests" is what?
What is the direct object?
What is the participial phrase?
Eating healthy, Craig got in great shape.
What is eating healthy?
A stanza can also be called a ____
What is a verse?
Poetry with formal structure requiring the final words of the line to rhyme.
What is rhyme scheme?
Donovan or his sister __(cooks/cook)__ dinner every night.
What is cooks? (cooks is a singular verb; "Donovan or his sister" is a singular subject, so they need to match)
The doctors give Charlie many tests throughout the day.
The word "Charlie" is what?
What is indirect object?
What does the participial phrase modify?
Eating healthy, Craig got in great shape.
What is Craig?
If free verse is more conversational, then having a rhyme pattern/scheme is more ____.
What is formal?