Adjectives
Literary Terms
Examples
Confusing Words
Miscellaneous
100
The comparative involves comparing this number of people or things.
What is two?
100
Repetition of vowel sounds in lines of poetry
What is assonance?
100
Buzz
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Larry ate _________ much ice cream (spell)
What is t-o-o?
100
Drawing a conclusion from evidence in a literary work is called an
What is inference?
200
The comparative of good
What is better?
200
The highest point of action or interest in a story
What is the climax?
200
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
What is alliteration?
200
Did they ek-sept the terms of the agreement?
What is a-c-c-e-p-t?
200
The audience for an article about a heart valve replacement in Woman's Day magazine
What is someone who might have or might know someone who might have heart valve replacement?
300
The superlative of beautiful
What is most beautiful?
300
At the end of a story, the tying up of loose ends
What is the resolution
300
The river whispered to the trees on its banks.
What is personification?
300
The _________ is the building downtown with the dome on the top.
What is c-a-p-i-t-o-l?
300
The number of words you must have in an introductory prepositional phrase before you follow the phrase with a comma
What is two?
400
The number of people or things being compared when you use the superlative
What is three or more?
400
The part of a story that draws the reader in
What is the narrative hook?
400
Homer said that he was crazy like a fox.
What is a simile?
400
Jim's ___________(s) told him to return the money he found.
What is p-r-i-n-c-i-p-l-e-s?
400
In Mrs. Gregg's class, what is the number after which you start writing a number as a numeral
What is 10?
500
Questions answered by adjectives
What are which one, what kind, and how many?
500
A reference to another piece of literature
What is an allusion
500
The audience knows Juliet is not dead, but Romeo doesn't.
What is dramatic irony?
500
The ____________(s) of the rain are flooding and some school closings.
What is e-f-f-e-c-t-s?
500
Two sentences joined with a comma and no conjunctions
What is a comma splice?
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