Jane and Sally ride to the store, and Sarah and Sally meet them there.
What is a compound sentence.
100
A phrase that is tends of be a roundabout, socially acceptable way of expressing an idea, like: "I need to use the restroom." Instead of, "I'd like to urinate."
What is a euphemism.
100
An implied comparsion without the use of like or as, "life is a highway."
What is a metaphor.
100
"Daisy, Daisy, Daisy!"
Who is Mrytle.
100
A statement that appears to contradict itself, "I can resist anything, except temptation."
What is a paradox.
200
Without the wind, the ride down the mountain was easy.
What is complex sentence.
200
The fish was the size of a whale.
What is a hyperbole.
200
Placing two unlike entities next to each other for the purpose of comparsion or contrast.
What is juxtaposition.
200
"A plague o' both your houses!"
Who is Mercutio.
200
A short story featuring human characters that teacher a distinct lesson.
What is a parable?
300
The fox and the hound were once friends, but not anymore.
What is complex sentence.
300
A literary technique where part of an entity represents the whole, "Give us this day our daily bread."
What is synecdoche.
300
A comparison that uses the common understanding of one topic to enlighten an unfamiliar one. "If knowledge is a tree, the different fields of knowledge are its branches. "
What is an analogy.
300
"A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate between land and sky."
Who is Henry David Thoreau.
300
A phrase that is common in everyday speach like, "What's up?"
What is colloquialism.
400
I decided to run for office, but I didn't tell my mother I was a candidate.
What is a compound sentence.
400
Remember the beginning of Romeo and Juliet? "My naked weapon is out." He meant his sword. This type of pun suggests two means, one of which is more risque than the other.
What is double entrendre.
400
A brief reference to a person, historical event, place, piece of art, or object. "She is the Michelangelo of sandwich art."
What is an allusion.
400
"That’s my Middle West . . . the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark. . . ."
Who is Nick Carraway
400
A piece of literature in which a set of abstract ideas are personified through human characters.
What is an allegory.
500
When Dan called, he was angry; however, he soon calmed down.
What is complex-compound sentence.
500
The most commonly used "play on words." They are created using one word to suggest two different meanings. Again, Romeo and Juliet, "A scratch, a scratch, but twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man."
What is a pun.
500
When we use human qualities to describe abstract ideas, animals, or inanimate objects. "O beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on."
What is personification.
500
"But there was a more real life for her here, in New England, than in that unknown region where Pearl had found a home. Here had been her sin; here, her sorrow; and here was yet to be her penitence
The narrator of the Scarlet Letter.
500
A literary genre in which the vices, follies, or shortcomings of society are held up to ridicule, usually for the purposes of change.