Tone and Mood
Poetry
Literary Techniques
Grammar
Reading Trivia
100
The attitude of the writer.
What is tone
100
This poem has 14 lines and is sometimes written using iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
100
The song "She's a brick house," uses this literary technique.
What is metaphor?
100
This sentence needs this to be correct: I liked the first cold day I liked the second one even better.
What is a comma and a conjunction?
100
The name of the first book we read this year.
What is Night?
200
the "feel" of a piece of writing. Also called "atmosphere."
What is Mood?
200
The phrase "silk stand stiff" is an example of this literary technique.
What is alliteration.
200
The saying "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," is an example of this literary device.
What is hyperbole?
200
The following sentence would be correct by changing this: Each person has to use their map.
What is switching "their" to "his or her"
200
Titles of books are written using this.
What are italics?
300
Identify the tone: the next morning, the "veteran" inmates treated us without brutality. We went to wash. We were given new clothing. They brought us black coffee....Outside, the sun warmed us. Our morale was much improved...
What is cautiously optimistic?
300
"A petal clings to a last breath" is an example of this literary technique.
What is personification.
300
The last two lines of a sonnet rhyme, and are referred to as this.
What is a couplet?
300
A comma + a FANBOYS are used for this purpose.
What is joining two independent clauses?
300
When including a quote, writers must include this at the end of the sentence.
What is a parenthetical citation?
400
Identify the mood: ...But far off, at the back of the property, a light is shining in Tio Toni's casita, a glittering sparkle among the dark foliage. In my dazed and sleepy state, I feel a surge of joy, as if Secret Santa has arrived and I am a little kid again.
What is excited?
400
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;/ If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;/ This is the meaning of "dun" based on the context of the poem.
What is dull grayish brown?
400
The opening line of Romeo and Juliet is as follows: "Two households both alike in dignity" uses this literary technique.
What is iambic pentameter?
400
The sentence below is missing this punctuation: The setting of the story was dismal "The barracks were places of despair and death" (67).
What is italics? colon
400
We have learned these 3 types of quote blends this year.
What are comma, colon, and smooth?
500
Identify the tone: She held one up, twirling it in her hand/as if to show me how the world began/ and ended in perfection. I was stunned./How could she make a rose so woebegone,/ couldn't silk stand stiff? And how could a child,/ otherwise convinced of her mother's taste,/ know what to think...
What is bewildered?
500
Identify the theme. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;/ Coral is far more red than her lips' red;/ If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;/ If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head...I grant I never saw a goddess go;/ My mistress when she walks, treads on the ground;/ And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare/ As any she belied with false compare.
What is real love isn't based on false ideals of perfection.?
500
The following quote is an example of this literary technique: When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge and refused to spend any money.
What is allusion?
500
The sentence "Ms. Bailey an English teacher at Verona Area High School is kind of weird at times" contains this error.
What are commas around the non-restrictive appositive "an English teacher at Verona Area High School."
500
This type of quote blend does NOT require that you capitalize the first letter of the first word of the quote.
What is the smooth blend?
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