Poetry | Figures of Language | Paragraph Structure | Sentence Structure | Random Facts |
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What is using lines with a 5-7-5 syllable scheme?
This is how to write a haiku.
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Alliteration or (assonance)
This figure of language can be found in the phrase, "the big bad bear battled the badger."
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What is TIES?
This is the acronym for how to write a great paragraph.
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What is a simple sentence?
This is an example of which kind of sentence (simple, complex, compound). "Bob went to walk his dog."
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What is 1959?
This is the year that Bishop Pinkham was built in.
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What is using an AABBA rhyme scheme where the A lines are longer and the B lines are shorter? They are also usually silly.
This is how to write a limerick.
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Simile
This figure of language can be found in the phrase, "she smiled like the beams of sunshine arcing over the morning horizon."
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What is an example?
This is what each idea in a paragraph have to be paired with.
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What is a compound sentence?
This is an example of which kind of sentence (simple, complex, compound). "I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak English."
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What is a flood?
This is the major natural disaster that ravaged the city of Calgary in 2013.
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What is a stanza?
This is a single part of a poem, often called a "verse."
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What is hyperbole?
This figure of language can be found in the phrase, "my mother made me do a hundred hours of homework last night."
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What is a topic sentence?
This is what the T in TIES stand for?
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What is a simple sentence?
This is an example of which kind of sentence (simple, complex, compound). "Alicia goes to the library and studies every day."
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What is Calgary?
This is the city where the dish Ginger Beef was invented.
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What is prose?
This is a term for written work that is not poetry.
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What is personification?
This figure of language can be found in the phrase, "the storm rumbled angrily on."
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What is outline the main point of the essay?
This is what a thesis should do.
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What is a complex sentence?
This is an example of which kind of sentence (simple, complex, compound)."After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies."
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What is the winter Olympics?
This is the major event that came to Calgary in 1988
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What are rhyme, rhythm, figurative language or a specific form?
These four things that make something poetry.
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What is metaphor?
This figure of language can be found in the phrase, "he was a mountain of a man, easily six-foot-eight."
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What is outline the main point of the paragraph?
This is what a good topic sentence should do.
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What is putting two independent clauses together with a conjunction.
This is how to build a compound sentence.
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What is a pun
This is the figure of language used to make the following joke funny. "I love whiteboards, they are remarkable."
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