Isn't It Ironic?
Grammar
Sentence Types
Literary Elements
Latin Roots
100
This type of irony describes a situation when the reader knows that a shark is about to attack, but the shark's victim does not.
What is dramatic irony?
100

The appositive and its type in the following sentence: Sheila's best friend Cynthia is 70.

What is "Cynthia" and restrictive?

100
This sentence type describes this sentence: I am going to be late for my dentist appointment.
What is a simple sentence?
100
This type of narrator knows more than a single character in the story can possibly know.
What is third person omniscient?
100

To cancel officially.

What is revoke?

200
This type of irony describes a situation when a character moves to a cold climate to avoid poisonous spiders only to be bitten by an illegally-smuggled poisonous spider a day after moving.
What is situational irony?
200
Inside or outside the quotation marks: Where the period goes (at least in America).
What is inside the quotation marks?
200
This sentence type describes this sentence: When I was learning to read, I loved The Little Blue Truck.
What is a complex sentence?
200
This type of story or poem can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning or moral.
What is an allegory?
200
The Ralph J. Jewitt gymnasium is considered to be this.
What is eponymous?
300
This type of irony describes a situation when a character is bragging about being rich, but the reader knows that his wife has emptied his bank account.
What is dramatic irony?
300
Something is wrong here: I wish she was in my English class.
What is the word "was"?
300

This sentence type describes this sentence: Don't leave school until you have your homework done.

What is a complex sentence?

300
In literature, this word describes the overall atmosphere of the story although in general, it describes a person's state of mind.
What is mood?
300
If you are very gullible, you are this.
What is credulous?
400
This type of irony describes a situation when a character says, "I just love waiting for the bus in the pouring rain!"
What is verbal irony?
400
Inside or outside the quotation marks: Where the question mark goes (at least in America).
What is inside if the quote is a question, or outside if the narrator is asking a question?
400
This sentence type describes this sentence: Indy always destroys his chew toys, so we put them away.
What is a compound sentence?
400
This type of narrator is a character in the story.
What is first person?
400
To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear, something one might do when they know they have done wrong, but don't want to admit to it.
What is equivocate?
500
This type of irony describes a situation when a character sells her hair to buy a fob chain for her husband, but her husband sells his fob watch to buy combs for his wife.
What is situational irony?
500
The appositive and its type in the following sentence: Sheila's best friend, a 70-year-old from Pennsylvania, is named Cynthia.
What is "a 70-year-old from Pennsylvania" and nonrestrictive?
500
This sentence type describes this sentence: I watched TV all weekend; I don't have any work done.
What is a compound sentence?
500
The trowel in "The Cask of Amontillado" is an example of this literary element.
What is foreshadowing?
500
If it is clearly defined or formulated, it is this word.
What is unequivocal?
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