Literary Devices
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED HERE?
Alliteration
This form of conflict can be seen in "I've Got Gloria" when Scott starts to feel the emotions of guilt and remorse for his prank.
Person vs. self conflict
In English, we call them parentheses. What is the term in math and science?
Brackets
This is the term for a person, place, or thing that you can physically touch.
How many of the planets in our solar system have rings?
4: Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus and Saturn
I asked my dad to drive me to the movies but he couldn't because he was drowning in a sea of paperwork. WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED HERE?
A metaphor.
This short story term analyzes the emotions that a reader experiences while reading a story.
Mood
This piece of punctuation is used to introduce a list or explanation.
A colon
The dog with the MUDDY coat just ran out of the yard. To what part of speech does the word MUDDY apply?
Adjective
This popular condiment (sauce) was originally sold in pill form to help cure diarrhea.
Ketchup
In the movie Frozen, Hans reveals himself to the audience as a villain before Anna knows that he is evil. What is the term for situations where the audience has more information than the characters involved?
Dramatic irony
This is the point on the plot graph directly after the climax, just before the resolution or end of the story.
Falling action
This piece of punctuation is used to indicate possession or to combine words into contractions.
An apostrophe
Name the part of speech that shows how a person or thing connects to the rest of the sentence by describing its time, position, or direction.
(ex. The fork fell under the table)
Preposition
How many of Snow White's seven dwarves have names ending in the letter 'y'?
FIVE: Sleepy, Happy, Grumpy, Sneezy and Dopey
The door of the haunted house whined in protest as I pulled it open. WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS BEING USED HERE?
Personification
This is the term for a major character whose personality is fully developed and described, showing multiple character traits and depth.
A round character
What TWO DIFFERENT pieces of punctuation could possibly be used to separate two complete and related sentences?
A period or a semicolon
The cat quietly crept across the room. What word in this sentence is an ADVERB?
Quietly.
The average human body does this action 14 to 17 times per minute.
Blinks.
It's been raining so long that I feel like I should build an ark. WHAT LITERARY DEVICE IS USED HERE?
An allusion.
This is the term for a narrator that has access to the thoughts, ideas and emotions of all the characters involved in a story.
Third-person omniscient
This is the term for the optional comma that can be added before a conjunction, like in this example:I bought shoes, a new jacket, and a hat.
Oxford comma
How many conjunctions can be found in the following sentence?: I wanted to go for a run and read my book, but it started to rain, so I stayed inside instead.
THREE: I wanted to go for a run and read my book, but it started to rain, so I stayed inside instead.
What is the Scoville scale used to measure?
The spiciness of food.