literary devices
What literary device is being used in the following sentence?
The dog was as fat as a blimp.
simile
What type of sentence is the following?
The cat ate the mouse.
simple
What is etymology?
(Bonus for 100 points: What is entomology?)
the history of words
(the study of insects)
What is the word sum for "etymology"?
etym+o+loge+y
What literary device is being used in the following sentence?
The car wheezed as I started it in the morning.
personification
What type of sentence is the following?
The cat ate the mouse and the dog bit the cat.
compound
What do you call the meaningful structural units (building blocks or Legos) of words?
morphemes
What is the word sum for "phonology"?
phone+o+loge+y
What literary device is being used in the following sentence?
The teacher was really thinking outside the box when she asked her students to stand on their heads to do math problems.
idiom
What type of sentence is the following?
The cat and the dog.
fragment
What is the term for two letters that represent one phoneme?
digraph
What is the word sum for "disease"?
Bonus: What is the word sum for "easy"?
dis+ease
Bonus: ease+y
What literary device is being used in the following sentence?
The moon was a flashlight in the dark night.
metaphor
What type of sentence is the following?
The cat ate the mouse the dog bit the cat the human scolded the dog.
run-on
What is the term for (written) spelling?
orthography
What is the word sum for "solstice"?
Bonus: Identify the denotation of the bases.
sol+st+ice
<sol> "sun"
<st> "stand"
What two literary devices are being used in the following sentence?
The lone tree was a sentinel standing outside the house.
personification & metaphor
What type of sentence is the following?
After the cat ate the mouse, the dog bit the cat.
complex
What term is used to represent the sounds of the human voice?
Bonus: What are phonemes?
phones
Bonus: smallest meaningful units of speech
What is the word sum for "disestablishmentarianism"?
dis+e+st+able+ish+ment+are+ian+ism