Riddles
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An egg
This type of figurative language is a reference to a person, place, or event from history, literature, religion, sports, etc.
allusion
Some people consider our time in history to be a ______________ revolution.
technological
immature
I add lots of flavor and have many layers, but if you get to close I’ll make you cry. What am I?
An onion
If you don’t keep me, I’ll break. What am I?
A promise
Fix this sentence:
No one had never seen nothing like it.
No one had ever seen anything like it.
When pollution mixes with rain, it can form______________.
Awkward; difficult (i)
inconvenient
I’m always on the dinner table, but you don’t get to eat me. What am I?
Plates / utensils
I have a tail and a head, but no body. What am I?
A coin
"ain't, growed, throwed" are considered __________ English.
Nonstandard
The older term for "climate change".
global warming
The scientific name for the led of a pencil (g)
Grandpa went out for a walk and it started to rain. He didn’t bring an umbrella or a hat. His clothes got soaked, but not a hair on his head was wet. How is this possible?
He was bald
Which word becomes shorter when you add 2 letters to it?
The word "short".
Change this sentence into a passive voice:
Jack helped his brother.
His brother was helped by Jack.
The terrorist attacks in which planes flew into the World Trade Centers in America took place when?
September 11
Confessed (a)
admitted
What word contains 26 letters, but only has three syllables?
alphabet
It belongs to you, but your friends use it more. What is it?
Your name
An __________ is the noun or nouns to which a pronoun refers.
antecedent
Someone mailed _________ in envelopes to newspaper, television, and government offices. The tiniest amount of this germ can be deadly.
anthrax
The examination of removed tissue (b)
biopsy
What can you hear, but not see or touch, even though you control it?
Your voice