1. Note cards to study Alliteration Personification Onomatopoeia Hyperbole Metaphor Simile Stanza Line Setting Character Plot Author’s purpose

2. Notecards to add Free verse Stage directions Cast of Characters Dialogue Narrator Rhythm Rhyme Imagery

3. Add these! Metaphor Def. A comparison of two things without using like or as. Ex. She was the sunshine in my life. Hyperbole Def. An exaggeration used for effect. Ex. She was so hungry she could eat a horse. Alliteration Def. Words that begin with the same sound. Ex. Sassy Sally sounds silly.

4. Personification Def. Giving human characteristics to animals or objects. Ex. Cat in the Hat Ex. Super Buddies Onomatopoeia Def. A word that sounds like the action. Ex. Bang! Ex. The egg sizzled in the pan. Simile Def. A comparison using like or as. Ex. Adam is as slow as a snail at copying.

5. Line- Def. a single line in poetry. Ex. Roses are red. Stanza Def. It acts like a paragraph in a poem. It usually shares a rhyming pattern. Also, divides up a poem. Ex. Roses are red, Violets are blue. Yesterday, you said I love you. Free Verse- A poem that does not have a rhyme.

6. Free verse Def. A poem that does not have a rhyme. Ex. The wind blew softly Windows shake to the touch.

7. Stage Directions Def. The words that tell actors how to say their lines and how to move or act on stage. It’s in parenthesis ( ) and italics. Ex. Moses: (with worry in his voice) How am I going to clean this up? (he grabs a mop and holds a bucket).

8. Cast of Characters Def. The list of characters in a play. Ex. Cast of Characters George Bill Pig

9. Dialogue Def. What characters say Ex. Beyonce: All my single ladies! Jay-Z: You’re not single!

10. Narrator Def. The character who tells the story. They do NOT participate in the story. Their job is to tell the details that the characters cannot. Ex. Narrator: Juan didn’t realize he had gum on his shoe. Coach Rojas saw it and started to laugh. Juan started to laugh too. He still had no idea.

11. Rhythm Def. A pattern of rhymes in poem. Ex. I’m not going to school today, I’d rather go outside and play.

12. Imagery Def. words or phrases that help the reader create a picture in their mind. Ex. It was so cold that her boogers froze like mountains in Antarctica.

13. Rhyme Def. When two or more words have the same sound. Ex. Cat, bat, rat