Definitions
Poetry
Terms
Gratuitous Animal Facts
Wild Card
100
Altruistic!
What is showing a disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others; unselfish. (adj)
100
Haiku
What is a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
100
Criteria
What is a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.
100
Nudibranch!
What is a member of Nudibranchia, a group of soft-bodied, marine gastropod mollusks which shed their shell after their larval stage.
100
Governor of Tennessee
What is Bill Haslam
200
Synesthesia.
What is the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body. (noun)
200
Simile & Metaphor (& give an example of each!)
What is Simile: a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (like/ as) Metaphor:a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
200
Thesis statement
What is : A thesis statement appears near the beginning of a paper, and it offers a concise solution to the issue being addressed. It states the claim of the argument presented in a paper.
200
Mantis shrimp!
What is a predatory marine crustacean with a pair of large spined front legs that resemble those of a mantis and are used for capturing prey.
200
Capital of Alaska
What is Juneau
300
Etymology.
What is the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history. (noun)
300
US Poet Laureate (what is it & who)
What is the national poet / Natasha Trethewey
300
Analysis & Summary
What is Analysis: detailed examination of the elements or structure of something, typically as a basis for discussion or interpretation. Summary: a brief statement or account of the main points of something.
300
Seadragon!
What is any of several beautifully colored Australian fishes (family Syngnathidae) intermediate between the pipefishes and the sea horses and having many large leaflike appendages on the plates of the body that simulate the seaweed among which they live
300
Matryoshka dolls
What is the Russian nesting/nested doll, refers to a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other.
400
Gregarious.
What is (of a person) fond of company; sociable. (adjective)
400
Who wrote "The Bridge?"
What is Hart Crane.
400
Creative nonfiction
What is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
400
Katydid.
What is a large, typically green, long-horned grasshopper native to North America. The male makes a characteristic sound that resembles the name.
400
National animal of Scotland?
What is the unicorn.
500
Luminous.
What is full of or shedding light; bright or shining, esp. in the dark. (adjective)
500
Villanelle!
What is a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain.
500
Magical realism.
What is a literary or artistic genre in which realistic narrative and naturalistic technique are combined with surreal elements of dream or fantasy.
500
Turritopsis nutricula
What is immortal jellyfish!
500
Smallest state in the United States?
What is Rhode Island!
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