Poetry

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Jeopardy

• Poetry

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Vocabulary
Define Me!
What Am I?
Who Am I?
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What is a simile?

• A comparison using like or as.

1-100
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What is the use of words that sound very much
like the noise they name?

• Onomatopoeia.

2-100
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What is a simile?

• His feet were as big as boats.

3-100
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What is a metaphor?

• The sea is a hungry dog.

4-100
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What is rhyme?

• I am used to draw attention to the verses as they
  are read. I can be internal or at the end.

1-200
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What is repeating a word or phrase for rhythm or
emphasis?

• Repetition.

2-200
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What is personification?

• The leaves gossiped among themselves.

3-200
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What is rhyme?

• Hang tight, then make a right.
• The musics pumpin
• I start jumpin

4-200
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What is a metaphor?

• A comparison of two different things without
  using a word of comparison.

1-300
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What is the feeling a reader gets from a poem?

• Mood.

2-300
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What is repetition?

• We fear nothing, because we have nothing to fear.

3-300
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What is mood?

• Happy sad excitement.

4-300
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What is a Personification?

• Describes something nonhuman as if it had human
  qualities.

1-400
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What is the specific reason that a person has for
writing?

• Authors Purpose.

2-400
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What is alliteration?

• The sun slowly reaches the highest point in its
  bright, blue home.

3-400
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What is onomatopoeia?

• The firecrackers went off with a bang.

4-400
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What is alliteration?

• The repetition of consonant sounds at the
  beginnings of words.

1-500
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What is a message about life or human nature that
the writer shares with the reader?

• Theme.

2-500
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What is theme?

• Peer pressure importance of home bravery.

3-500
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What is authors purpose?

• To narrate to persuade to explain to describe.

4-500
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What is Personification?

• Tall and blue
• True and open
• So open my arms have room
• For all the world
• For sun and moon
• For birds and stars
• Yet how I wish I had the chance to
• Come drifting down to earth
• A simple bed sheet
• Covering some little girl or boy
• Just for a night
• But I am Sky
• Thats why
• - Grace Nichols

Final Jeopardy
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Thanks
for the great game!!