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Vocabulary Terms
Vocabulary Terms
Terms Applied
Tone
Rime of the ..
100
Group of lines arranged together in a poem.
What is stanza?
100
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
What is end rhyme?
100
Write an example of a simile.
What is... teacher grades!
100
What tone is implied by this statement? GET OUT OF MY ROOM!!
What is anger/frustration
100
What is the tone of the poem?
What is gloom?
200
The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem.
What is rhythm?
200
A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
What is internal rhyme?
200
Write an example of a metaphor.
What is ... teacher grades!
200
Mike Hayes, a student at Penn State, came up with a creative idea to solve his tuition and college expense problems. He wrote to a newspaper columnist, asking him to request that each of his readers send Hayes a penny. The columnist, who thought the idea fun, published a column explaining Mike's request. In less than a month, Hayes' clever idea had generated 2.3 million pennies - $23,000!
What is admiring?
200
What does the author imply in the first stanza?
What is The weather is perfect for sailing as they cut through the waves?
300
Used in poetry to convey feeling and emotion, and set the mood for the work.
What is tone?
300
an emotional or social association with a word, giving meaning beyond the literal definition
What is Connotation?
300
Identify where the personification is in the poem: "Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, Have You Got A Brook In Your Little Heart
What is bashful flowers/ blushing birds / shadows tremble
300
The word 'sabotage' comes from a French word 'sabot', which is a heavy boot or shoe worn by workmen. During the Industrial Revolution, mechanized factories were introduced in France. Many workers, angry at being replaced by machines, began throwing their shoes into the gear mechanisms to break or 'sabotage' the engines.
What is straightforward?
300
What does Stanza IV imply?
What is They are no longer moving.
400
Language that provides a sensory experience using sight, sound, smell, touch, taste
What is Imagery?
400
An intentional exaggeration or overstatement, often used for emphasis.
What is hyperbole?
400
A heart stands for love
What is symbolism?
400
At least half of the world's six thousand languages are dying because they are no longer taught to children. Each time the last speaker of a language dies, a precious culture vanishes. Lost with those cultures are treasures of knowledge about nature and irreplaceable records of a unique way of life.
What is regretful?
400
What is the poet trying to tell us in Stanza V?
What is The people have been at sea so long that they have run out of fresh water?
500
A nonliving thing given human of life-like qualities
What is personification?
500
The use of a word or object which represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves
What is symbolism?
500
Write a stanza to a poem (that you know or made up) and have one poetic device in it.
What is teacher grades!
500
Create a sentence that evokes a fearful tone. MAKE IT EVIDENT AND PERFECT!
What is TEACHER GRADES!
500
In Stanza III, to what do the words "Copper sky and bloody sun" refer?
What is The brightness and intense heat of the sun reminded them of their predicament?