Words & Meanings
Literary Devices
Canadian Culture
English Grammar
Slang & Idioms
100

A fictional, perfect society.

What is a utopia? 

100

A comparison using the words "like" or "as"

What is a simile? 
100

Canada's westernmost province.

What is British Columbia

100

An exclamatory sentence often expresses such strong feeling that it ends with this punctuation mark.

What is an Exclamation Point?

100

An expression to indicate its raining heavily.

What is raining cats and dogs? 

200

An adverb used to describe someone moving fast. 

What is quickly? 

200

Language that describes the experiences of the five senses.

What is imagery? 

200

The official name used to describe Canada's indigenous peoples. 

What is First Nations? 

200

It's the 1-syllable word that commonly precedes the verb in an infinitive phrase

What is to?

200

Someone who tries really hard in school.

What is a keener? (or try-hard)

300

A word that is both a noun and a verb that describes a person who fights authority.

What is rebel? 

300

An expression that refers to something by describing something else.

What is a metaphor? 

300

The most populated city in Canada.

What is Toronto?

300

The past participle of swim.

What is swum?

300
To get two things done at once.

What is kill two birds with one stone?

400
If you remove one letter from the word "bubble" you will have this word to describe talking.

What is babble?

400

A contradiction that seems impossible but is actually true.

What is a paradox? 

400

This Canadian artist was born with the name Aubrey Graham.

Who is Drake?

400

The past tense of the word bet.

What is bet? 

400

This word means very cool and to be ill.

What is sick?

500

A word that means both remarkably good and outstandingly bad.

What is egregious? 

500

Things that are placed next to each other to enhance their differences.

What is juxtaposition?

500

The nickname for an RCMP officer.

What is a mountie? 

500

The main type of these can stand alone as a sentence; the subordinate type can't.


What is a clause?

500

This word rhymes with dank but means the opposite.

What is rank?

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