Grammar
This type of verb helps or "assists" the main verb in a sentence
Answer: What is an auxiliary verb?
Showing a lack of respect; rude and impolite (8)
Answer: What is "insolent"?
A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme
Answer: What is a sonnet?
To be extremely happy
Answer: What is "on cloud nine"?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Answer: What is an allusion?
A word formed from the first letters of other words, like "NASA"
Answer: What is an acronym?
To officially revoke or cancel (7)
Answer: What is "rescind"?
The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Answer: What is alliteration?
To do something badly or carelessly
Answer: What is "cut corners"?
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities
Answer: What is symbolism?
This punctuation mark is used to show possession or contractions
Answer: What is an apostrophe?
Extremely small or insignificant (9)
Answer: What is "miniscule"?
A Japanese poem with 17 syllables in three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
Answer: What is a haiku?
To be punished for something you did wrong
Answer: What is "face the music"?
A character or force that opposes the protagonist
Answer: What is an antagonist?
A verb form that functions as a noun in a sentence
Answer: What is a gerund?
Showing or feeling discriminatory superiority over people from other countries (10)
Answer: What is "xenophobic"?
The comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
Answer: What is a metaphor?
To suddenly change your opinion about something
Answer: What is "do a 180"?
The moment of greatest tension in a work of literature
Answer: What is the climax?
A clause that can stand alone as a complete sentence
Answer: What is an independent clause?
The action of delaying or postponing something (15)
Answer: What is "procrastination"?
A poem of 19 lines with a specific rhyme scheme and two repeated lines
Answer: What is a villanelle?
To reluctantly accept something because you realize you have no other choice
Answer: What is "bite the bullet"?
A figure of speech in which a thing or idea is given human attributes
Answer: What is personification?