Hate That Cat Flashcards
In this book, Miss Stretchberry introduces a student to a new way of communicating.
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Miss Stretchberry is Jack’s teacher, teaching him poetry as a style of writing (communicating).
In this book, Room 204 is where the main character’s writing teacher has class.
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In this book, Uncle Bill is a college professor who questions how the main character writes and the quality of it.
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Uncle Bill tells Jack a poem has to rhyme, have meter and other elements Jack will learn about during the school year.
In this book, the main character learns to use words like “buzz,” “pop,” “trickle,” and “drip.”
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Words that sound like they are spelled are called “onomatopoeia”
This book uses onomatopoeia as an element of writing.
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“I was standing at the yellow bus stop minding my own business when I heard mew mew mew like it was coming from the sky”
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“Even though it is fun to imagine a purple pickle, a polished pencil and chocolate chalk.”
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Those phrases with more than one word starting with the same letter use a writing technique called “alliteration.”
In what book must the main character learn to write phrases with words beginning with the same letter, something that makes the words fun to read together?
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This is called “alliteration.”
In what book are famous authors’ works adapted for school assignments?
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The poets include T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Walter Dean Meyers, among others.
“Okay, I will unfreeze my brain now and write a simile but I am warning you: it might not be too good.”
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Similes are another writing feature in which you compare one thing to another.
“The chair in my room is like a pleasingly plump mommy.”
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This is a simile written by Jack, that also uses alliteration.
“I am getting a little worried about poor Mr. William Carlos Williams (is he alive?)”
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Note: any name followed by (it he/she alive?) should make you think of this book.
“She can see me laugh and she can sign the word for laugh but she cannot hear the laugh.”
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Jack’s mother is deaf.
“Uncle Bill says Mr. WCW is a ‘minor poet’ and a ‘foe poet’ (later my dad explained he meant faux which means ‘fake’)”
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“There is a big emptiness in our house just like there was when my dog Sky died.”
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Jack is sad that Skitter McKitter is missing.
“I love that Miss Stretchberry.”
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“All the delicious ineffable effable sounds.”
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Jack took the phrase “ineffable effable” from T.S. Eliot and used it several times in the book.
“I will hear all the sounds in the world and I will write them down so you can hear them too.”
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Jack’s end of the year poem; I think this line is for his mother.
“so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.”
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“The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams.
“What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night!”
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“The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe, using onomotapoeia.
“To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells from the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells–From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.”
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“The Bells” by Edgar Allan Poe
Listen for any words with “-nabulation” and think of this book.
“He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world, he stands.”
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“The Eagle” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“But I tell you, a cat needs a name that’s particular, a name that’s peculiar, and more dignified”
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From “The Naming of Cats” by T.S. Eliot
“His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name.”
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From “The Naming of Cats” by T.S. Eliot
