Language Arts
Connotation or Denotation: an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
What is connotation?
The basic unit of life---the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.
What is the cell?
What date and year was the Declaration of Independence signed?
What is July 4, 1776?
The measure of a perpendicular angle.
What is 90 degrees?
The number of sacraments in Catholicism.
What is 7?
Look (who's or whose) talking!
What is who's?
These are the three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is 10 amendments?
The Least Common Multiple of 6, 8, and 16.
What is 48?
Name the four evangelists.
Who are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
What prefix turns all these words into their opposites: sane, complete, credible?
What is "in-"
The fourth planet from the sun.
What is Mars?
The three branches of government.
What are the legislative, judicial, and executive branches?
Another name for the perimeter of a circle?
What is the circumference?
The name of the heresy that was widespread in the early Roman empire claiming the falsity of the Trinity.
What is the Arian Heresy?
This figurative language used in this sentence:
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.
What is personification?
Name of the Mission that landed the first men on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
In the Civil War, this side was also known as the Confederacy.
What is the South?
A C.D. is on sale for $12.00. If the sale price is 25% off the original cost, name the original price.
What is $16.00?
The feast day celebrating the beginning (or birthday) of the Church.
What is Pentecost?
A literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy and later found in Shakespearean plays, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader, although unknown to the character at the time of the action.
What is dramatic irony?
The element whose chemical symbol is Sn.
What is tin?
In economics, the acronym GNP stands for this.
What is Gross National Product?
The elapsed time between 11:15 P.M. and 2:30 A.M.
What is 3 hours and 15 minutes?
The name of the apostle Paul before the conversion on the road to Damascus.
Who is Saul?