Vocabulary and Such
This word type is a person, place, thing or idea.
What is a noun?
Instead of paragraphs, poems are organized into ______
What are stanzas?
My dog is as big as a house.
What figurative device is this statement using?
What is a simile?
This is the biggest state by land mass in the United states of America.
What is Alaska?
This word means to determine how two things are alike or similar.
What is compare?
A ______ is the smallest part of a stanza and a poem.
What is a line?
I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse!
What figurative device is this statement using?
What is hyperbole?
This is the third biggest city in America and is located in the state of Illinois.
What is Chicago?
This is a breakdown of the most important parts of a paragraph or text. This is not your life story.
What is a summary?
This is the space between two stanzas.
What is a stanza break?
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances.” -William Shakespeare
What figurative device is this statement using?
What is a metaphor?
Kiev is the capital of this country in Eastern Europe.
What is Ukraine?
This word starts with a "c" and means to bring something to an end.
What is conclude?
Jenny jabs jabs at Jake's job.
This repetition is an example of what poetic device.
What is alliteration?
Winter in N. Dakota is miserable. The nights are freezing and the wind howls something fierce throughout the valleys and mountains.
What figurative device is this statement using?
What is personification?
This continent is home to the great pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
What is Africa?
This is not the main title of a story but a smaller one that tells the reader what they should expect in the following section.
What is a subheading.
I don't want to clean my room
I don't want to eat my veggies
I don't want to watch flowers bloom
I don't want to go to Uncle Reggie's
The "I don't want to" is an example of what poetic device?
What is anaphora?
BBQ places in Texas are everywhere. They are a dime a dozen.
What figurative device is this statement using?
What is an idiom?
The city of Jerusalem is located in a disputed territory claimed by the Middle Eastern country of Israel and this territory that hopes to use it as its capital.
What is Palestine?