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Epic Poetry Terms
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The terms are to make you familiar with the unit terms.
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lengthy, serious narrative poem. journey both to and from the nether regions. Time order. these divine figures like to manipulate mortals. . Calling on or asking for help.
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Big
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Esperanza Rising Chapter 1
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bitter feelings about having been treated unfairly. (of a place) to be filled or echo with a sound. the condition of being right, appropriate, or fitting. an attractively arranged group of flowers. a shady garden alcove with sides and a roof formed by trees over a framework..
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Older Children
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Ethan Frome
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Ethan's wife. Ethan's occupation. The town where the Fromes live. Zeena's cousin. Zeena's favorite wedding present.
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Teenage
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Examinable Terms
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arranged in order according to the order of time. to represent, indicate or typify before hand. the difference between things having similar or comparable natures . a written composition in which two or more characters are represented as conversing . relating representation of form of figure in art.
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Very Difficult
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Fahrenheit 451
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in a routine manner. certainty, confidence. a language specialist. delicate, ornamental work made from twisted wire of gold or silver. excess words; wordiness.
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Fahrenheit 451
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in a routine manner. certainty, confidence. a language specialist. delicate, ornamental work made from twisted wire of gold or silver. excess words; wordiness.
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Teenage
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Fairy Tails
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A Gloomy Place. Big Fortress. She is the Beautiful Daughter. She is the Rulers Wife. He is the Ruler.
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Young Kids
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Fairy Tales
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Fill in the crossword
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someone who is not fighting on your side. an abnormally small creature. bad luck. person of noble birth, trained to help the poor and the weak. small, human in form, playful, with magical powers.
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Older Children
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Fairy Tales & Fables
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Name the fairy tale or fable that matches each clue.
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This fable is the one we used as an example in class. This female had seven dwarfs come to live with her and is also a Disney movie.. This fairy tale involves a prince, a maid, and a glass slipper. This story/ character would be considered both a fairy tale and a fable and is in Into the Woods. This word describes something that you must show in your own stories. Two examples of these would be love and jealousy..
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Older Children
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Fairy Tales Crossword #1
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These animals built their homes out of straw, wood, and brick.. Cinderella had an evil one of these.. He is the unlikely race winner. Slow and steady won the race for him.. Hansel and Gretel run into a witch with a house made of ______.. She had the longest hair in all of the land..
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Fairy Tales Crossword #2
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The shoemaker’s wife made the elves these to keep them warm.. When it was the right temperature, the Three Bears loved to eat this. …and they all lived happily ______ after.. The more he lied, the longer his nose grew.. When Jack planted the magic beans, a giant ______ sprouted out of the ground..
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Famous German Poets
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Poet, playwright and theatrical reformer. Wrote the 'Three-Penny Opera'.. Famous poem: 'Zeh was a Pharmacist' and 'A Shadow on the Wall'.. 19th Century German author and poet.. Many of his poems reflected the landscape of Brandenburg.. Associated with Romanticism..
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Famous Poets
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Here is their first name. What is their last name?
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William. Lord. Alice. Mya. Robert.
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Famous Writers
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One of these character's topics. The perishing of a beautiful ______. A famous writer in the Romanticism time period. Changed his name. The religion of early America. Often cast in a bad light. a religious movement in America in which the human was glorified. The famous work attacking Puritans.
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Far North
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soaked. steam or heat. fall in shock. up right window. without lifting your feet.
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Teenage
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Features of a Persuasive Speech
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work out the correct answers and fill in the gaps!
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The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. e.g. 'We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall ...'. A techniques used to reinforce a point. 'You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe' (from The Wizard of Oz) What techniques is used here?. The comparison of one thing to another often using like or as. Making reference to something or somebody that everyone is familiar with e.g. Who do you think I am? Sherlock Holmes?.
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Features of Spoken Language
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Terminology
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Long political darkness - all fired up and ready to go. 'we' 'our' . Repetition of phrases at the start of paragraphs - There is something happening in America. The art of speech making. Placing opposite meaning together - corridors of shame - pathway to success.
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Fences
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Like Cory, we are soon going to go off to __________________. . A variety of cuisine traditionally popular in African American culture. . The literary genre of Fences.. Troy used to play this sport. . The city that Fences is set; also the home of August Wilson..
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Fictional Giant Monsters
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Main Characters: Heroes and Villains
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Kong's Mate. The Giant Insect-like Creatures. The Giant Mutant Dinosaur. Kong's Son. The Giant animal-plant-rock hybrid.
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Hard
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Figuarative Language
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He is a bulldozer. The wind whispered in my ears. He is like a soldier. In a pickle.
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Older Children
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Figurative Language
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The saying ''A mountain of ashes' is an example of what poetic term?. 'The alarm clock screamed at me this morning.'Is an example of what poetic term?. The reapting of the sound 'sizzle,sizzle'is an example of what poetic term?. 'Brave as a lion'Is an example if what poetic term?. 'Faith unfaithful kept him falsely true'Is an example of what poetic term?.
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Teenage
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Figurative Language
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'The moon was a ghostly galleon' is what type of figurative language?. A great exaggeration used to emphasize a point. 'The chocolate cake called to me in the middle of the night' is an example of what type of figurative language?. A single word that sounds like what it refers to. School is like a prison is an example of what type of figurative language?.
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Teenage
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Figurative Language
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What does Personification describe . A non literal description . Adding human features to an inanimate object. The language used in this crossword . A comparative figure of speech.
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Figurative Language
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compares two things by referring to one thing as another. Sun is to star as Jupiter is to ______.. Baby is to adult as puppy is to _____.. Popcorn is to salty as candy is to _____.. Green is to go as red is to _____..
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Figurative Language
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A comparison between two things. Does not use like or as.. An exaggeration. . When a nonhuman object is given human characteristics.. Sound words written out.. A comparison between two things using like or as..
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Older Children
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Figurative Language
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the moon was a ghostly galleon' is what type of figurative language?. A great exaggeration used to emphasize a point. The chocolate cake spoke to me in the middle of the night. A single word that sound like what it refers to. school is like a prison is an example of what type of figurative language?.
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Older Children
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Folk Tale
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Find all the words that go in the boxes
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Babe the Blue Ox's best Friend. Paul Bunyan's animal companion. Someone who grows crops. A type of dough made from long fermentation dough. When wood is trimmed into a cylinder form.
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Frankenstein Vocabulary
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a technical and not necessarily intrinsically out rageous violation of what is saced because consecrated to god. an instance of behavior or nature. marked by honor, generosity, and courtesy. to make a prognosis about the probable outcome of. Infectous diseases occuring in animals.
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From Macbeth
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tending to cause of death or serious injury. the internal organs. of no danger to health. one that has supreme authority, autonomous, self government . the quality of being more noticeable than anything else.
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Gary the Dreamer
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afraid or freightened. A device that controls the flow of water. thinks well of someone or something. strolling musicians. to make a sound of a letter or word.
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Young Kids
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Gatsby Passage
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unable to be remedied or rectified; irretrievable. violent disorder or commotion.. characterized by melancholy; longing; yearning; pensive, especially in a melancholy way. a view or prospect, especially one seen through a long, narrow avenue or passage, as between rows of trees or houses. having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy..
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Genre
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a story with a hero. a story about someones life. a story that gets you to buy something. a play of some sort. a story with talking animals.
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Genre
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explains thing that happen in nature usually with gods. a story with made up characters but is set in the real world. a story that has a pattern and sometimes has rhyming in it. a story that will make you laugh . a suspenseful story about a puzzling event.
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Genres of Literature
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A short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. Ex; Charoletes Web. A movie, play, or broadcast program intended to make an audience laugh.. A story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.. Prose writing based on facts, such as a biography or history.. The activity or skill of marking coherent words on paper and composing text..
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George Gordon Byron
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It was the companion of his loleliness. This word means a young noble awaiting knighthood. His masterpiece. His first poem. A metaphor used to describe the wave.
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George Gordon Byron
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It was the companion of his loleliness . This word means a young noble awaiting knighthood. His masterpiece . His first poem. A metaphor used to describe the wave.
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Hard
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Grace and the Time Machine
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to call over and over. like a machine. having fitness, power, or ability. on board; in or on a ship. sits again.
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Older Children
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Greek and Latin Roots
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Fill in the Greek or Latin Root that matches the clue.
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Do. One. Write. Letter, written. To hear.
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Teenage
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Greek and Latin Roots
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the science of laws and lawmaking. abnormal, impaired, or incomplete functioning. of or relating to the stomach. conduct based on moral law. no longer used or active.
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Big
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Greek Gods
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vulcan. venus. Neptune. mercury. bacchus.
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Older Children
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Greek Gods
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he is god of fire and blacksmiths . She is Goddess of Love and Beauty . She is Goddess of the rainbow, messenger of the gods . He is god of the sea and causes earthquakes when he is angry. he has a son called Percy. he is God of the Roadways, Travelers, Merchants and Thieves .
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Greek Gods
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God of fire metalworking. Goddess of love and beauty. God of the Ocean. Messenger god. God of wine and festivities.
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Older Children
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Greek Gods
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the island were Rhea brought Zeus. the name of the rock child. the god/lord of the sea. nothing. the god of agriculture .
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Greek Gods and Goddess
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Fill in
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God of fire. Goddess of love and beauty. Apollo is the god of. Goddess of farming roman name. Symbol for god of the underworld.
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Very Difficult
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Greek Gods and Goddesses
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Complete
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to obtain by lot, by fate, or by the will of the gods. Goddess of love, beauty and desire. was the founder and first king of Thebes. is a divine hero whose homeland was Troy. He was the son of Tros . were female chthonic deities of vengeance;.
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Greek Gods and Godesses
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He was distinguished for his beauty.. was the lame god of fire and crafts or the two together, hence of blacksmiths. . is the goddess of love, beauty and sexual rapture.. While gathering flowers in a field one day, she was abducted to the Underworld by Hades, who arose in his chariot from a fissure in the ground.. was the god of the sea, earthquakes and horses.
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Greek Myth
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demeter was____ to her daughters kidnapper. some of the gods are very smart and ___. benign: prophecy was ____ form up in the tower. when persophone is kid napped her mother put ____ on all the plants. many gods have a ____on other gods.
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Greek Mythology
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The Goddess of Love and Beauty.. Threee headed dog who guarded the Underworld.. The Queen of the Underworld.. A young women who offended Athena and got turned into a spider.. The God of the Seas..
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Greek Mythology
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deals with fire daily. bad driver. breaks promises. jealous, yet very pretty. bad move on her part; .
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Greek Mythology
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Hint: use your creation doodles, booklet and packet
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he sometimes caused panic. full of himself - could not look away from himself so he died. Aphrodite's husband; blacksmith of the gods. goddess of love and beauty. where they all lived.
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