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100

Meaning of the Greek root PHILEO

What is "to love?"
100
The author of THE RAVEN.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
100
The meaning of "a tempest in a teapot."
What is "a small event that has been exaggerated beyond proportion?"
100
The name in grammar for a word or phrase modifying or explaining a previous noun
What is an appositive?
100
Shakespeare's title that "all the world is a...(what)."
What is stage?
200
The meaning of thermos AND an example of a word using this root.
What is "heat"?  AND "thermometer" or "thermostat"?
200
The author of the Illiad and Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
200
The meaning of "Necessity is the mother of invention."
What is a saying for "when the need is great, you figure out a way to meet the need"?
200
The meaning of the saying "being on tenterhooks".
What is "being in painful suspense?" (or similar words)
200
The meaning of the saying "a bee in your bonnet."
What is "something you can't stop thinking about?"
300
The meaning of TELE 

and an example of a word using this root.

What is "at a distance" AND "telephone" or "telepathic" or "television?"
300
The author of the poem IF.
Who is Kipling?
300
The author of the poetic quote, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair, it's had tacks in it and splinters..."
Who is Langston Hughes?
300
The errors in this sentence are three:  My acquantance a guy you know from soccer expects everyone to compliment him all the time, which is exhausting and has the affect of making others want to avoid hanging out with him.

What is  " My ACQUAINTANCE, (COMMAS)a guy you know from soccer, expects everyone to compliment him all the time, which is exhausting and has the EFFECT of making others want to avoid hanging out with him."

300
Two figures from Classical Mythology.

Who are (choose):  

Apollo and Daphne ; Orpheus and Eurydice; 

Narcissus and Echo ; Pygmalion and Galatea; or Odysseus and characters in the Odyssey?

400
The meaning of OMNIS 

AND whether it's a Greek or Latin root.

What is "all" and "it's a Latin root"?
400
The author of the play JULIUS CAESAR.
Who is William Shakespeare?
400

The author of the line  "I wandered lonely as a cloud."

Who is William Wordsworth?
400
Spell the word that means you give approval in writing or orally for someone getting a job.
What is RECOMMENDATION?
400
The name in poetry for one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
What is an IAMB?
500
Agua is the root for water in Latin.  The root in Greek for water AND an example of a word using this root.
What is HYDOR and "hydraulic" "hydroelectric" or "hydrant" for examples?
500
The author of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."
Who is Robert Frost?
500
If you've read Julius Caesar, the meaning of "et tu Brute?"

or

Complete the line of this poem:  "There is no ______like a book to _____ __ ______ _____."

1.  What is "and you too, Brutus?" meaning "you also betray me?


2.  What is "There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away?"

500
The difference between compound and complex sentences.
What is "a compound sentence has two independent clauses and a complex sentence has one independent and one dependent clause?"
500
The name for a problem in each sentence:  


1. Having come to the movie to be relaxed, it was difficult to find the movie was a horror movie.

2. His red and yellow house.

1. What is a dangling modifier?


2.  What is a fragment?

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