STARTED CLASS WITH PRACTICE VOCAB QUIZ 6

JOB ONE:  WORK ON ANNOTATIONS.  GOAL BY END OF DAY–Get your sticky notes on the page and organized.  Tomorrow will be time for writing.

JOB TWO: Exam Review (Here’s 10 minutes worth)

• alliteration
  • when the same starting sound happens repeatedly in a section of writing
  • “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers”
• assonance
  • repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
  • Examples and definitions
• consonance
  • repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words
  • Examples etc.
• onomatopoeia
  • words that sound like their meaning
  • “splish-splash” “bang” “swoosh”
• meter
  • the rhythm of words in poetry–based on syllables and stresses.
• slant rhyme
  • when words nearly rhyme (sometimes called “half-rhyme”)
  • Examples