Authors
Literary Devices
Poems
Synonyms
Grammar
100
William Golding
Who wrote "Lord of the Flies?"
100
Voice
What is the word that describes the way a piece of writing sounds?
100
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who wrote "The Cloud?"
100
Disconsolate
What is a synonym for sullen?
100
FANBOYS acronym (For-And-Nor-But-Or-Yet-So)
What is the acronym that refers to coordinating conjunctions of independent clauses?
200
Agatha Christie
Who wrote "The Moustrap?"
200
A repetition of sounds produced by vowels within a sentence or phrase.
What does the literary device Assonance mean?
200
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who wrote "Ode to the River Otter?"
200
Perpetually
What means the same as "always?"
200
Sentence Fragment
What is the name of a "sentence" without a subject and/or verb?
300
Conan Doyle
Who wrote "The Boscombe Valley Mystery?"
300
The use of concepts/ ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together they hold significant value on several levels
What does the literary device "Paradox" mean?
300
William Wordsworth
Who wrote "To A Butterfly?"
300
Believable
What is a synonym for "credible?"
300
Concise Sentence
What do you call a sentence with no unnecessary words?
400
Sherlock Holmes
Who is the Protagonist created by Arthur Conan Doyle?
400
Universal truths, adages, wise sayings and maxims aimed at imparting sense and wisdom.
What are aphorisms?
400
Lines Written in Early Spring
In what poem does Williams Wordsworth glorify nature?
400
Intrinsic
What is a synonym for "innate?"
400
Semicolon
What is used in place of a period to separate two sentences where the conjunction has been left out.
500
One of the first Detective Fiction Writers
Who is Victor Hugo?
500
A statement that draws attention to a fact that is already obvious and noticeable. Understating a fact is usually done by way of sarcasm, irony, wryness or any other form of dry humor. Understating something is akin to exaggerating its obviousness as a means of humor.
What is an understatement?
500
Odes to the Seasons
What is the name of a set of four poems by William Blake?
500
Protagonist
What is a synonym for "Hero?"
500
(Em) Dash
What is used to replace commas, semicolons, colons, and parentheses to indicate added emphasis, an interruption, or an abrupt change of thought?
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