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100

What line is repeated most often in Jimmy Santiago Baca's poem "I offer this poem"?

"I love you"

100
The stale bread was as hard as a rock.
Simile
100

   It is some dream that on the deck,

                                 You’ve fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
100

A word that shows action in a sentence.

Verb

100
The three types of literary genres we are studying this year

What are poetry, drama, and prose?

200

He was the first poet to speak at the inauguration of a president.

Robert Frost

200

Using extreme exaggeration.

Hyperbole

200

Fill in the missing two words: "Shall I compare thee to a -"

Summer's Day?

200

A word that describes a noun or pronoun. Ex. The GREEN grass grew after the rain.

Adjective

200

Iambic pentameter

a line of verse with five metrical feet (or 10 syllables) each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.

300

What did Walt Whitman do during the civil war?

He worked at a hospital for wounded soldiers

300
Words that imitate the sounds they make
Onomatopoeia
300

"Two roads diverged in a _______ wood" (fill in the blank)

yellow

300

a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.

Adverb

300

In MLA format for the first page of an assignment, this should be typed on the first line of the upper lefthand corner of your page

Your first and last name

400

She wrote Abuelito Who.

Sandra Cisneros

400

My dog is a pig when it is time for supper.

Metaphor

400

"Who used to laugh like the letter k"

Abuelito Who by Sandra Cisneros

400

a word governing, and usually preceding, a noun or pronoun and expressing a relation to another word or element in the clause

what is a preposition?

400

Name three elements of proper email etiquette! (Ex: clear subject line)

Judge's disgression

500

He was a pioneer of Imagism, a literary movement which sought to clearly express precise images through poetry.

William Carlos Williams

500
The trumpet sang out the notes for the Star Spangled Banner.
Personification
500

Fill in the blanks:

so much _____ upon a _____ wheel barrow ____ with rain water beside the _____ chickens

depends, red, glazed, white

500

List three conjunctions

some possible answers - for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so

500

What the acronym RATS stands for

Restate the question, answer the question, track down evidence, summarize