Grammar
Sleep =
What do you call a group of lines in a poem?
a stanza
Who is Mrs. Clarts?
a teacher
Who is Persephone’s mother?
Demeter
quick
adjective
What do you call a comparison that contain the word “like“ or “as”
A simile
Where does Michael meet Dr. Death?
Who did Icarus fly with?
His father, Daedalus
What kind of word do adjectives modify?
nouns
What do you call a comparison that does not use the word “like” or “as”?
a metaphor
Who wrote the poem that starts like this “ tyger, Tyler, burning bright”?
William Blake
Why did Daedalus build a labyrinth?
to keep the Minotaur inside
What are the 2 types of verbs?
doing words and being words
What figure of speech lends human characteristics to a thing or object?
a personification
Who takes down the garage at the endo of the book?
Mr. Butley
Who abducted Persephone?
Hades
Name the 3 types of nouns we studied.
common, proper, collective
What do you call a poem that uses another poem’s line to create the end words of a new poem?
a golden shovel poem
What fruit did Persephone eat that prevented her to leave the underworld?
a pomegranate