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Poetry - what is the a collection of spoken or written words that express ideas or emotion, usually in lines and stanzas
Poem
Poetry - what is the repetition of similar sounds at the end of a line in poems
Rhyme
Figurative Language - what is the comparison of 2 objects using like or as?
Simile
Poetry - who is the person speaking within a play?
Speaker
Poetry - what type of poem is free from limitations such as meter, rhyme, or rhythm?
Free Verse Poem
Figurative Language - which form of figurative language compares two objects by stating one is another to suggest a likeliness?
Metaphor
Poetry - which type of poem tells a story and includes plot, and can have a rhyming pattern?
Narrative Poem
Poetry - what is the title of the person who is the author of a poem?
Poet
Poetry - which type of poem explores an emotion in a song-like fashion?
Lyric Poem
Figurative Language - what are words and phrases that do not use it's literal meaning and try to enhance the reader's visualization?
Figurative Language
Fiction, Drama, Poetry - what is the main idea, or underlying meaning of a literary work, which can be stated directly or indirectly?
Theme
Figurative Language - which form of figurative language expresses an extreme exaggeration?
Hyperbole
Poetry - what type of poem is a long narrative poem that is related to a heroic deed of courage and bravery?
Figurative Language - what form of figurative language is it when author's give characteristics to a non living object with human like qualities?
Personification
Figurative Language - what form of figurative language occurs when there is a repetition of sound at the beginning of a word?
Alliteration
What form of figurative language is used in the words that are bold below?
We're all just the same, now, you snooty old smarties
Alliteration
What form of figurative language is used in the lines below?
They kept them away. Never let them come near.
And that's how they treated them year after year.
Rhyme
All Genres - what are quotes, phrases, or other information gathered from the original source or other text used to support?
Text Evidence
Expository - what is the term for the reason or intent of writing, such as amusing, persuading, or entertainment?
All Genres - what is it when an idea or conclusion is drawn from evidence and reasoning?
Inference/Inferencing
Identify the forms of figurative language used in the following sentences:
He needed to workout, because he was as skinny as a toothpick.
Hyperbole, Simile
Explain the following metaphor. What is compared and why?
Laughter is the best medicine.
Answer varies
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Onomatopoeia
Explain the meaning of the following simile - The best explanation wins.
The test we took in Reading class was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Answer varies
Identify the forms of figurative language used in the quote:
"In the Eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun."
Simile