Spelling B
Grammar
Literary Devices
Stuff I Should Know
Mystery
100

How do you correctly spell amachure?

amateur

100

Rusty is a dog. What part of speech is dog?

noun

100

That bump on his head is as big as a football.

simile

100

What is a 5-line rhyming poem with a rhyme scheme of AABBA that is usually humorous?

limerick

100

Who killed Smaug the dragon?

Bard

200

How do you correctly spell aparatis?

Apparatus

200

Rusty the dog is intelligent. What part of speech is "is"?

verb

200

He couldn't hit the broad side of a barn from two feet away!

Hyperbole

200

Name two major themes of the novel, The Hobbit?

Greed, Bravery, Friendship

200

What was the protagonist's (main character) name in the short story "Wish You Were Here"?

Dorothy

300

How do you correctly spell etikit?

Etiquette

300

Rusty is a guard dog. What part of speech is "guard"?

adjective

300

The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

Personification

300

A type of literary device in a story that uses an idea, object, or concept that is repeated throughout a story to develop a theme or mood. What is it?


Motif

300

What is meant by a "paradox" in the story "A Sound of Thunder"?

Man/woman meeting themselves as they travel back and forth through time.

400

How do you correctly spell irasistable?

Irresistible

400

My dog Rusty is my best friend. What part of speech is "my"?

Pronoun (possessive pronoun)

400

Sometimes I feel that time is a thief.

Metaphor

400

Give two examples of contrast in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"?

aristocrats vs mechanical

City of Athens vs the woods (reality vs woods)

Titania vs Bottom

Puck vs Bottom

etc.

400

What type of sentence is the following? "Since the stay at home order was announced, people have not been able to go to restaurants or shops."

Complex sentence

500

How do you correctly spell hi Jean?

Hygiene

500

Rusty buried something here in the ground. What part of speech is "here"?

adverb (adverb of place)

500

There are madmen in the middle of those mountains.

alliteration

500

What are the 5 parts of plot that is present in every story?

Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution (denouement)

500

Riddle: What has a head and a tail but no body?

A coin

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