Poetry Slam

What is slam poetry?

• A type of music lyrics

• A type of performance art

• A type of English test

• A type of oral evaluation

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Who decides the winner of a slam poetry competition?

• The host of the competition

• The people voting at home

• The judges and audience

• The competitors

What are the messages in the poems about?

• Personal struggle

• Cultural experiences

• Politics

• All of the above

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What is the meaning of MEANINGFUL?

• Irrelevant, not important

• Important, full of purpose

• Strange, not common

• Beautiful, full of sentiment

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What is "alliteration?"

• the same sound at the end of the lines

• treating an object like a person

• a comparison using "like" or "as."

• the same, repeated sound at the beginning of words

Which is an example of "metaphor?"

• to, too, two

• The girl was as fast as lightning.

• The fighter was a bull in the ring.

• The house groaned with disapproval.

Which of the following is an important convention of slam poetry?

• Tone

• Characterisation

• Plot

• Camera angles

Birds bathe backward in the birdbath. This is an example of what element?

• simile

• metaphor

• alliteration

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The third graders are as wild as a den of lions. What element is in this sentence?

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

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In this line of the poem, "Far Away, buzzers buzz and school bells ring, what element are the words buzz and ring?

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• stanza

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CCSS.RL.8.10

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