A writer's or speaker's choice of words; can be described as formal or informal among other categories.
What is diction?
100
A stupid or silly person
What is an imbecile?
100
"Ms. Keen has been teaching since the Middle Ages."
What is an example of hyperbole?
100
2014
What is your year of graduation?
200
Anything that is puzzling; a difficult problem
What is a conundrum?
200
"You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values and candied yams."
What is an example of metaphor?
200
To run away, as from dangers or pursuers
What is to flee?
200
"His voice is as smooth as a new-poured road."
What is an example of a simile?
200
$4,000
What is the dollar amount of the Project Grad scholarship?
300
To throb or beat
What is to pulse?
300
The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for a reader; the feeling created in the reader as he or she reads.
What is mood?
300
To beg
What is to plead?
300
"My throat is killing me."
What is an example of hyperbole?
300
October 18-22
What is Homecoming Week? Let's get some Class of 2014 spirit!
400
Full of wishful yearning
What is wistful?
400
".....yummy and red and leaf and the branch not shaking a bit. Bees bumbled through the air so stuffed with apple they couldn't be bothered to sting me."
What is an example of imagery?
400
Surrounded tightly or firmly
What is embedded?
400
"He spreads her froggy legs and pins her froggy feet. I have to slice open her belly. She doesn't say a word."
What is an example of personification?
400
Duane Clark
Who is the freshmen class sponsor?
500
A troublesome invasion
What is an infestation?
500
"...the wind from Canada sucks up water from Lake Ontario, runs it through the freeze machine, and dumps it on Syracuse."
What is an example of personification?
500
To swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces
What is to gobble?
500
"Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame."
What is an example of metaphor?
500
October 1st, 2010
What is the end of the first six weeks? Your first report card will reflect your grades up to this date.