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Module 1, Unit 1
Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| explicit | stated clearly (answer is directly in the text) |
| inferential (infering) | making a good guess based on schema and text evidence |
| identify | pick it out |
| line | smallest unit within a poem |
| stanza | made up of lines |
| stanza break | space between stanzas |
| schema | information stored in your brain |
| immortal | living forever, never dying |
| thy | relating to yourself or thyself |
| symmetry | balanced proportions |
| leer | unpleasant look |
| decent | acceptable or good enough |
| caviar | fish eggs |
| anonymous | unidentified or unknown |
| embarrassed | self-conscious, awkward or uncomfortable |
| cautious | being very careful or on guard |
| poem or poetry | a type of writing written using lines and stanzas |
| straggly | thin, unorganized and going off in all different directions. |
| idiom | something that doesn't mean what it literally says it has a special meaning |
| simile | something that compares using like or as |
| metaphor | comparing without using like or as (says something is something else) |
| re- | prefix meaning again |
| un- | prefix meaning not |
| -ed | suffix past tense |
| -ing | suffix present tense |
| -s and -es | suffixes plural form |
| personification | giving human qualities to non-human things |
| Onomatopoeia | sound words |
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