literary tricks
This is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to emphasize something.
What is hyperbole?
this was the first capital of ancient Egypt
What is Memphis?
This part of the Nile gives 80% of the water flow into the Nile during monsoon season.
What is the Blue Nile
the front part of a ship
what is a bow?
The name of the play that we performed by Shakespeare.
What is As You Like it
This is when the audience knows something that a character does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
The reason pyramids were built
What is they were tombs for the kings.
This is where many would say Nile River actually begins.
What is Lake Victoria?
the back part of a ship
what is a stern
What forest do Rosalind, Celia, and Orlando spend much of the story?
What is the Forest of Arden?
A comparison between two things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This was the soul or personality of a person in Ancient Egypt.
What is a ba?
The cataracts in the Nile start after this city (in the direction of going up the Nile/going South)
What is Aswan?
the right side of a ship
what is a starboard
Rosalind disguises herself as this person when going into the forest.
Who is Ganymede?
When what happens or is said is different from what is expected or meant. For example, A fire station burns down.
What is irony?
This was a flat roofed tomb in Ancient Egypt that eventually helped lead to the building of the pyramids.
What is a mastaba?
This is where the Blue Nile and the White Nile meet.
What is the city of Khartoum (Sudan)
the left side of a ship
what is a port
Finish the quote: All the worlds a stage and all the men and women merely players
What is They Have their exits and their entrances and one man in his time plays many parts.
A direct comparison that says one thing is another to show a similarity.
What is a metaphor?
The three seasons in ancient Egypt.
What were Akhet, Peret, and Shemu?
What is the desert, the Mediterranean Sea, the Sinai Peninsula, and the cataracts.
The tall, vertical pole on a ship that supports the sails, rigging, and sometimes equipment.
What is a mast?
begin the quote: And nature stronger than his just occasion made him give battle to the lioness.
What is kindness, nobler ever than revenge?