English

5-15-15 – Harris

1. Poetry Slam this morning! J  The kids who volunteered to participate did a very good job!
2. We returned all of our textbooks.
3. Ms. Harris announced that the review sheet would be ready sometime this afternoon—you can check back with her, otherwise she’ll have it to give out Monday.
4. Be sure you know the following (Note: I did not get all of what she called out!)  Start Studying now!

• Paradox
• Assonance
• Consonant
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhythm
• Myth
• Epic
• Epic simile
• Media res
• The different sentence types (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex) and know how to punctuate compound sentences –2 different ways
• Fragment
• Sentence run-on
• Protagonist vs. antagonist
• Flat rhyme
• Slant rhyme
• Internal rhyme
• Primary source
• Persuasive essay
• Humorous essay
• Understatement
• Emotionally charged
• Lyric form