Vocabulary
What is an incomplete thought?
A fragment.
There was an Old Man of Kilkenny,
Who never had more than a penny;
He spent all that money
In onions and honey,
That wayward Old Man of Kilkenny.
What is a Limerick?
What is alliteration?
The repetition of consonant sounds.
Simile.
Complete the sentence "the boy has a nickel but"
The boy has a nickel, but the chocolate cost a dime.
What does inflection mean?
The emphasis a speaker places on words through changes in pitch or volume.
What is Free Verse?
Poetry that does not follow and regular pattern, meter, or rhyme.
What is a simile?
A comparison between two objects using like or as.
What is the definition of onomatopoeia?
When the word actually sounds how it looks.
What does Roselva believe stays unchanged in the poem, "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change?"
The train tracks
What does meter mean?
The pattern or flow of sound created by the poet's arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is Prose poetry?
A more ordinary form of writing than free verse. Articles and stories are forms of prose.
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things that are not alike.
"He's running faster than the wind" is an example of what type of figurative language?
Hyperbole.
The poem "Oranges" was written in what point of view?
First Person Point of View
What is a Limerick?
A light, humorous, nonsensical verse of five lines, usually with the rhyme scheme or rhyming pattern of AABBA.
What is Ode?
A poem that celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is hyperbole?
A wild exaggeration
or
An exaggerated statement
Giving nonhuman things humanlike characteristics.
Personification.
What is the theme of "Oranges" by Gary Soto.
Answers may vary.
What does rate mean?
The speed at which a speaker delivers words.
What type of poetry consist of four-line stanzas in which the second and fourth lines of each inspire the first and third lines of the next stanza?
What is Pantoum?
"Tick tock" and "ding dong" are examples of figurative language?
Onomatopoeia
Fireflies, flickering, flitting, flashing, fireflies is an example of what type of figurative language?
Alliteration.
In the poem "Fireflies" what are the fireflies being compared too?
Artist