literary tricks
Ancient History
The Nile River
parts of a ship
Shakespeare
100

This is a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to emphasize something. 

What is hyperbole?

100

this was the first capital of ancient Egypt

What is Memphis?

100

This part of the Nile gives 80% of the water flow into the Nile during monsoon season. 

What is the Blue Nile

100

the front part of a ship

what is a bow?

100

The name of the play that we performed by Shakespeare. 

What is As You Like it

200

This is when the audience knows something that a character does not know. 

What is dramatic irony?

200

The reason pyramids were built

What is they were tombs for the kings.

200

This is where many would say Nile River actually begins. 

What is Lake Victoria?

200

the back part of a ship

what is a stern

200

What forest do Rosalind, Celia, and Orlando spend much of the story?

What is the Forest of Arden?

300

A comparison between two things using “like” or “as.”

What is a simile?

300

This was the soul or personality of a person in Ancient Egypt. 

What is a ba?

300

The cataracts in the Nile start after this city (in the direction of going up the Nile/going South)

What is Aswan?

300

the right side of a ship

what is a starboard

300

Rosalind disguises herself as this person when going into the forest. 

Who is Ganymede?

400

When what happens or is said is different from what is expected or meant. For example, A fire station burns down. 

What is irony?

400

This was a flat roofed tomb in Ancient Egypt that eventually helped lead to the building of the pyramids. 

What is a mastaba?

400

This is where the Blue Nile and the White Nile meet. 

What is the city of Khartoum (Sudan)

400

the left side of a ship

what is a port

400

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. 

500

A direct comparison that says one thing is another to show a similarity.

What is a metaphor?

500

The three seasons in ancient Egypt.

What were Akhet, Peret, and Shemu?

500
These are the four natural barriers that protected ancient Egypt from enemies.

What is the desert, the Mediterranean Sea, the Sinai Peninsula, and the cataracts. 

500

The tall, vertical pole on a ship that supports the sails, rigging, and sometimes equipment. 

What is a mast?

500

begin the quote: And nature stronger than his just occasion made him give battle to the lioness. 

What is kindness, nobler ever than revenge?

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