A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.
What is a thesis?
100
A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking.
What is a metaphor?
100
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line
What is a sonnet?
100
This was the second Japanese city the US dropped an atomic bomb on after Hiroshima
What is Nagasaki?
100
Continuing without pause or interruption.
What is incessant?
200
To state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.
What is a claim?
200
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g., as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox ).
What is a simile?
200
two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a couplet?
200
The reason the US joined the Allied forces in World War II
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
200
The faculty or power of using one's will.
What is volition?
300
A claim made to rebut a previous claim.
What is a claim?
300
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
300
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
What is a stanza?
300
The first and only time atomic weapons were used in war.
What is World War II?
300
Widespread destruction
What is havoc?
400
Means "finally, to sum up,"
What is a conclusion?
400
A warning or indication of (a future event).
What is foreshadowing?
400
A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
What is a haiku?
400
This means, "explosion affected person" in Japanese.
What is a hibakusha?
400
(of a device or attack) designed to cause fires.
What is incendiary?
500
A sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
What is a topic sentence?
500
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is Personification?
500
A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter.
What is an ode?
500
This weapon was used to put an end to the war with Japan.
What is the Atom Bomb?
500
Fail to resist (pressure, temptation, or some other negative force).