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Poetry
What do you mean?
Wild Category
100
Events are written or said in the order in which they happened or should be done.
What is sequential order?
100
A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, or an idea is given human form or characteristics.
What is personification?
100
The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words.
What is rhyme?
100
These are sayings in other languages such as hasta la vista or como estas.
What are foreign phrases?
100
These are things such as headings, bulleted lists, and graphics that help a reader find important information.
What are text features?
200
The perspective from which the writer or speaker tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient).
What is point of view? I saw the dog. (Written from the writer's point of view.) Tom saw the dog. (The writer is telling about Tom's experience.)
200
A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds usually using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
This is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is Rhythm? Where words fail music speaks. It speaks of the pain of the sorrow. Of the lost, of the life we live. It shares emotions it's a way to connect, to understand what others feel.
200
This is logical interpertation based on prior knowledge and experiences.
What is inference?
200
These are memory tricks or strategies that make information easier to remember.
What are mnemonic devices?
300
A statement or sentence that states the purpose of a paper or essay.
What is a thesis statement?
300
A description that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery? Fall The chilly weather settles into your bones. Those once green leaves turn Red, yellow, orange, and brown. CRRNCH! go the leaves,, Beneath your feet. The birds fly in a victory “V” formation, To where the sun rules the skies. The days of winter are lurking around Waiting to be free falling.
300
This is a syllable that is given more prominence or accent in it's punctuation.
What is a stressed syllable?
300
What are ideas that spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
What is propoganda?
300
These are words with more than meaning?
What are multiple meaning words?
400
Writing for different purposes (description, narration, expository, persuasion, process analysis).
What are writing modes?
400
A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point or evoke humor.
What is a hyperbole? He ate a ton of grapes!
400
These are syllables that do not get emphasis in speech.
What are unstressed syllables?
400
This is having a clear relationship with the matter at hand.
What is relevancy?
400
This is a short news story containing supplementary information that is printed alongside a feautred story.
What is a side bar?
500
Groups of words containing a subject and predicate and functioning as a part of a complex or compound sentence.
What is a clause?
500
The use of one thing to stand for or represent another.
What is symbolism? hawk represents war dove represents peace
500
This is a type of literary work. Poetry, science fiction, and historical fiction are examples of types of literary works.
What is genre?
500
This means to make use of; to put to work on a job or task for pay.
What is employ?
500
This is pertinet; refering to the case at hand.
What is relevant?