Literary Mayhem
This is when an author compares two things using “like” or “as,” because apparently saying something normally was too peaceful and we needed drama seasoning.
What is a simile?
This is the claim or main point of a piece of writing, not the random thought that wandered into your paragraph wearing Crocs and carrying a juice box.
What is a thesis?
This is the value of a digit based on where it sits, because apparently numbers also care about seating arrangements.
What is place value?
This is a three-sided shape, the original tiny roof-looking creature of geometry.
What is a triangle?
This is the disciple who denied knowing Jesus three times, then probably experienced the most intense rooster-related guilt in human history.
Who is Peter?
This is when an object, animal, or idea gets human qualities, like the pencil “screaming for help” after being chewed into a tragic wooden stick.
What is personification?
This is when you take someone else’s idea and put it in your own words, instead of copy-pasting like an academic raccoon stealing from a dumpster.
What is paraphrasing?
This is a fraction that has a whole number attached to it, like math got tired of being one thing and decided to wear a second identity.
What is a mixed number?
This is an angle that is exactly 90 degrees, standing there like it has perfect posture and judges all the other angles.
What is a right angle?
This is the apostle who wrote many New Testament letters after going from “enemy of the church” to “surprise, I work here now.”
Who is Paul?
This is the big problem in a story, also known as the reason everyone can’t just sit down, drink water, and make normal choices.
What is conflict?
This is when you mention exactly where your information came from, because “I found it somewhere on the internet” has the credibility of a suspicious hot dog.
What is citing your source?
This is the bottom number in a fraction, quietly doing structural support while the top number gets all the attention like a classroom celebrity.
What is the denominator?
This is the longest side of a right triangle, opposite the right angle, acting like the main character of the Pythagorean drama.
What is the hypotenuse?
This is the event where Jesus rose from the dead, absolutely ruining death’s entire career.
What is the resurrection?
This is when the reader knows something a character does not, creating the beautiful disaster of watching someone confidently walk into consequences.
What is dramatic irony?
This is the tone of writing that avoids slang, emojis, and phrases like “this guy was low-key cooked.”
What is formal tone?
This is what you do when you write a fraction in its lowest terms, because apparently 12/16 was being too extra and needed to calm down.
What is simplifying?
This is the total distance around a circle, also known as the circle’s personal measuring-tape necklace.
What is circumference?
This is the Christian belief that Jesus is fully God and fully man, because apparently one nature was not enough for the most important person in history.
What is the incarnation?
This is a hint about what will happen later, because the author apparently looked at the future and decided to leak spoilers with style.
What is foreshadowing?
This is when every sentence in a paragraph actually connects to the main idea, instead of forming a chaotic little parade of unrelated thoughts.
What is unity?
This is a number that can be written as a fraction, unlike your excuse for not showing your work, which remains completely irrational.
What is a rational number?
This theorem says that in a right triangle, the two shorter sides squared add up to the longest side squared, because triangles apparently needed a secret password.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
This is the teaching that Jesus died in the place of sinners, taking the punishment they deserved, which is not exactly the kind of group project anyone else could survive.
What is substitutionary atonement?