Poetry
What is a Haiku?
A Japanese poem with three lines. Syllables are 5, 7, 5.
What is alliteration?
The repetition of the same letters/sounds at the beginning of words.
What is setting and theme?
Setting is the time/place of a story and theme is the moral of a story.
What is the difference between 1st person P.O.V and 2nd person ?
1st person is used when the main character is telling the story. Pronouns used are “I” and “we.”
2nd person is used mainly for speeches or instructions and is meant for an audience. Uses the pronoun “you.”
What is organizational structure?
The way a text is organized.
What is a sonnet?
A poem about love that is 14 lines.
What is assonance?
repetition of vowel sounds
What is main idea and inference?
Main idea is the main point/event of a passage and an inference is an educated guess.
What is the difference between 3rd person limited and 3rd person omniscient?
Limited is limited to just one character. With Omniscient the narrator knows everything and can see in the minds/activities of multiple characters. Both use Pronouns:“He”, “she”, and “they.”
What is logos?
A way to persuade people with facts and statistics
What is an Elegy?
A poem usually about death.
What is consonance?
repetition of consonant (not vowel) sounds
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Mood is how you feel reading something, and tone is how the author feels.
What is third person Objective?
3rd person objective - the narrator simply describes what is happening to the characters in the story and does not show us anyone's thoughts or feelings. Pronouns: he, she, they ect.
What are the 7 different types of text structures?
chronological, sequence, problem and solution, cause and effect, spatial, descriptive, compare and contrast
What is a free verse poem?
A poem without any rhyme scheme.
What is a metaphor? Give an example.
A comparison between two things without using like or as. examples vary.
What is exposition and rising action?
Exposition is the beginning of the story and rising action is minor events leading to the climax.
What point of view is this?
June was not happy to start her new job. The pay was low and the hours were long; but what else could she do? They needed the money more than anything.
3rd person limited.
What are the 5 types of author's purpose?
inform, persuade, entertain, describe, instruct
How many stanza's are in this poem and what is the rhyme scheme?
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach(to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and
1 stanza's AABC
What is the difference between an aside and a monologue?
An aside is when a character talks directly to the audience (breaks the fourth wall) an a monologue is a long speech that an actor gives.
What is climax, falling action, and resolution?
Climax is the most exciting part of the story, falling actions is the minor events after the climax, and resolution is the end of the story when the porblem is solved.
What point of view is this?
The bell chimed as she walked into the store. Briefly, the wind whistled through the open door, then silence as it closed. Nina continued on her journey to the frozen food aisle.
3rd person objective.
What is a sentence fragment?
When a group of words look like a sentence but is not a complete thought. it is missing either a subject or a verb.