Figure of speech
Literature
Author
Vocabulary
Alpha questions
100

The flowers dance in the garden

Personification 

100

literature in the form of prose that describes imaginary events and people.

Fiction

100

Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

100

Transmuted

Changed

100

The Elizabethan Period in English literature produced enduring literary pieces the most famous of which were written by

Shakespeare

200

An exaggeration used for artistic effect.

Hyperbole

200

Longest epic of India

Mahabharata

200

The road not taken

Robert Frost

200

Penchant

Fondness

200

The part of a newspaper or magazine article which gives the name of the writer of the article is called_

byline

300

The beautiful bouquet blossomed in the bright sun

Alliteration

300

Exchange of letters

Epistolary

300

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

300

Mundane

Ordinary

300

Filipino short story, written by Paz Marquez Benitez, is considered one of the first modern short stories in Philippine literature and explores themes of love, regret, and unfulfilled dreams?

Dead Stars

400

O wild west wind!

Apostrophe

400

14 line poem dealing with emotions, feelings or ideas

Sonnet

400

The Little Prince

Antoine de Saint Exupery

400

Loquacious 

Verbose

400

During a classroom discussion, the teacher said, "We need to salvage this project before the deadline.” One student misunderstood, thinking salvage meant to destroy, as they were more familiar with its alternative meaning, commonly used in their local dialect. What type of communication barrier is present?

Semantic Barrier

500

A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side.

Oxymoron

500

First Tagalog novel published in the Philippines

Barlaan at Josaphat

500

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

500

Emulating

Imitating

500

refers to the nonverbal communication element that involves tone, pitch, volume, and speech

Paralanguage

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