Poetic Structure
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
Define Metaphor
What is "A comparison between two things where one is said to be the other"
"the words or phrases around an unknown words or phrase"
What are context clues?
What is missing from the following sentence?
"Who ate the cookie from the cookie jar"
What is "a question mark."
Define theme
What is "the lesson or message of the story"
The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end if the lines in a poem or verse.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Define Simile
What is "A comparison between two things where using the terms like or as"
One way context clues help us?
What is "They can help us by using them to determine the meaning of an unknown words/phrase"
Fix the sentence below to make it grammatically correct.
they did not eat all the cookie from the table in the kitchens
What is "They did not eat all of the cookies on the table in the kitchen."
Explain a theme from your favorite TV show/book/movie and explain how you know that is a theme in the tv show/book/movie.
What is (answers will vary)
the basic pulse or rhythm of the poem.
What is meter in poetry?
Define Personification
What is "giving human like qualities to a non-human thing.
Using the sentences below what is the meaning of the words stoop? Identify the clues that helped you.
The dark sky, filled with angry swirling clouds, reflected Gref Ridley's mood as he sat on the stoop of his building.
What is "a porch, entryway, stairs, or door."
What change if any, is necessary with he italicized portion of the sentence?
"Alyssa please turn on the lights," the dad asked at once.
What is her
Provided one way you can identify a theme of a piece if literature.
What is (answers may vary)
Type of poem:
Butterflies are cool
in the big, huge, green forest
They fly up so high!
What is Haiku?
The figurative language for "She has a heart of gold" and it's meaning
What is Metaphor "someone is a good person" OR "refers to someone goodness"
The word code in the following passage most closely refers to:
I pace the hall, hear whispers,
a code I knew but can’t remember,
mouthed by mouths I taught to speak.
A. a password or PIN number
B. a way of communicating
C. a set of rules or ethics
D. instructions for a computer or program
What is B a way of communicating
What change if any, is necessary with he italicized portion of the sentence?
She said it was time to go to related arts.
What is "no change"
What is the Theme of our current unit 2 and argumentative writing?
What is the importance of relationships.
What effect does the meter have on every line of the poem below?
When the earth is turned in spring
The worms are fat as anything.
And birds come flying all around
To eat the worms right off the ground.
They like the worms just as much as I
Like bread and milk and apple pie.
And once, when I was very young,
I put a worm right on my tongue.
I didn't like the taste a bit,
And so I didn't swallow it.
But oh, it makes my Mother squirm
Because she thinks I ate that worm!
What is "It creates a light musical/lyrical rhythm."
Which type of figurative language is provided below, and what does it show.
"The car's headlights glared at me in the dark night."
What is "personification and it is showing how bright the headlights are in the dark or how the headlights were looking right into the drivers eyes."
nonetheless
none•the•less \ˌnən-thə-ˈles\
adverb
Which definition most closely matches the meaning of nonetheless as it is used in line 35? Write the correct definition of nonetheless here and explain how you figured out the correct meaning.
What is "Definition 1" OR What is "in spite of that"
Identify the verb phrase: The house was purchased by the family.
was purchased
purchased
was purchased by
by the family
What is was purchased
Identify a theme from "A Poem for My Librarian Mrs. Long" and explain how you know.
What is (answers will vary)