Types of Poems
Subordinate Clauses
Main clauses
Primary/ Secondary Sources
Who Wrote It?
A Raisin in the Sun Vocabulary
100

Type of poem that is 14 lines 

What is a sonnet? 

100

Identify the subordinate clause in the following sentence.


"While she slept, Lucy snored."

What is while she slept?

100

Identify the following as a primary or secondary source:

 Newspaper reporting on a specific study

What is secondary source?

100

Harlem Shadows

Who is Claude Mckay

100

Belief that a minority group adopts the customs of the prevailing culture 

What is assimilation?

200

A long narrative poem that tells about fictional heroic acts.

What is an Epic poem?

200

Identify the main clause in the following sentence:


"We raked leaves while Dad tried the trees."

What is we raked leaves?
200

Identify the following as a primary or a secondary source


First person account of an event 

What is a primary source?

200

A Far Cry from Africa

Who is Derek Walcott?

200

In a manner suitable to a flirtatious woman

What is coquettishly?

300

A narrative poem written in verse that tells a story created by imagination.

What is a metrical tale?

300

Identify the main clause in the following sentence:


I have a paper route because I am saving for a bike.

What is I have a paper route?

300
Identify the following as a primary or secondary source:


Atlases

What is a secondary source?

300
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Who is Maya Angelou?

300

In a secretive manner

What is furtively?
400

Expresses love and admiration 

What is metrical romance?

400

Identify the following statement as true or false.


The main clause (sometimes called an independent clause) must contain:

Subject + verb

What is true?

400

Identify the following as a primary or secondary source :


Artifacts

What is a primary sources?

400

You Can Have it

Who is Philip Levine?
400

in a subtly influential manner

What is insinuatingly? 

500

A short poem intended to be sung. It was originally composed to be accompanied by a lyre.

What is lyric poetry? 

500

Identify the subordinate clause in the following sentence:

"While the kangaroo crossed the road, the tourists stayed inside their cars."

"What is while the kangaroo crossed the road?"
500

Identify the following as a primary or secondary source:


A Diary

What is a primary source?

500

We Real Cool

Who is Gwendolyn Brooks? 
500
The inscription on a tombstone

What is an epitaph?