Greek Roots
Greek Roots 2
LT - Elements of Style and Figurative Language
LT - Form and Elements of Drama, Fiction, and Non-fiction
LT - Poetry
100
The meaning of the Greek Root "Jur, Jus, and Jud"
What is law?
100
This is the greek root that means "carry."
What is port?
100
A taunting comment
What is sarcasm?
100
This is a descriptive literary sketch.
What is a vignette?
100
A repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
200
The meaning of "ped" and "man"
What is foot and hand?
200
Both of these Greek roots words mean writing.
What is graph and scrib/script?
200
Common language often used with friends.
What is slang?
200
The _________ is the main character and the __________ is their opponent.
What is protagonist and antagonist?
200
This is a story which relates the great deeds of its hero.
What is an epic?
300
To cut into two pieces.
What is bisect?
300
This word means to send something across places or to pass along?
What is transmit?
300
"Time heals all wounds" and "It's not over 'til it's over!" are examples.
What is a cliche?
300
This is the order of events in a typical plot starting with exposition.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement (resolution)?
300
The definition of stanza.
What is the paragraph of poetry?
400
A bow in your hair and the bow of a ship are what type of words?
What is homographs?
400
The definition of bibliography.
What is the written list of all the sources used in a report or book?
400
The definition of hyperbole.
What is an obvious exaggeration?
400
The qualities of a narrator's particular point of view.
What is the narrative voice?
400
Agreement in the ending sounds of words.
What is rhyme?
500
What does contra most likely mean in the word contradict?
What is against?
500
The definition of dictation.
What is something written down as someone says it?
500
This is the difference between a metaphor and a simile.
What is that a metaphor doesn't use "like" or "as" and a simile does.
500
These three things are all examples of external conflict and the fourth is an example of internal conflict.
What is human v. human, human v. society, human v. nature? What is human v. self?
500
The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky This is an example of...
What is imagery?
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