Poetry
The paragraph of a poem.
What is a stanza?
A picture of a geographic feature that helps the reader understand more information about a place.
What is a map?
My husband is as tall as a skyscraper.
The events of a story.
What is plot?
We use this strategy to summarize expository readings.
What is the 5 W's or BME?
Words used in poetry that help the reader create images in their mind.
What is imagery?
This is a feature that is used to show a relation between numbers and data in an expository article.
What is a graph?
Frederick is a race car because he runs so fast.
What is a metaphor?
The central problem in a story.
What is conflict?
The narrator uses the words I, me, and my.
What is first-person point of view?
When a poet uses words that have the same sounds, they create this.
Example: My cat jumped out of my hat.
What is rhyme?
Words, phrases, or sentences that help the reader understand a picture, photograph, or illustration.
What are captions?
The sun smiled at me as I started my day.
What is personification?
The overall emotional feeling an author creates with their word choice.
What is mood?
We use this strategy to analyze poetry.
What is the SMILE strategy?
The repetition of beginning consonant sounds in poetry.
Example: The cool cat caught a cold.
What is alliteration?
Bigger bold words that that come before a section and usually contain a main idea.
What are subheadings?
I'm so hungry that I could eat a whale!
What is hyperbole?
The message that an author creates about a topic.
What is theme?
What do we call the conversation between characters in a drama or play?
What is dialogue?
Patterns developed through stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
Words that help the reader identify a picture, photograph, or diagram and its parts.
What are labels?
The sour taste of defeat sank into my tongue so strongly that I felt like I would throw up.
What is sensory language?
The narrator is all knowing and uses the pronouns it, he, and she.
What is third-person omniscient?
We use this strategy to help us better understand poetry, fiction, and even expository readings.
What is annotating/using hashtags?