Poets
Liberal Arts
Spelling Rules
Words R Us
Roots
200

My Heart Leaps Up

William Wordsworth

200

Rules, terms, definitions to be learned

Grammar

200

Singular words ending in "consonant - y" are made plural this way

Change y to i and add es

200

When a word is created from its associative sound

Onomatopoeia

200

Slow and steady incline.  Word and root

Gradual   grad

400

If

Rudyard Kipling

400

The proper ordering of thoughts

Logic

400

I before E except after ___ (letter)

C

400

Rise high in the bright sky.  A run of rhyming vowels sounds.

Assonance

400

Sandwich shop.  Word and root

Delicatessen    deli

600

Can't 

Edgar Guest

600

The discipline that involves "wonder" about the world

Music

600

With rare exceptions, English words do not end in these four letters

I, U, V, J

600

Jack jumped and jarred his jaw.  The repetition of "j's"

Alliteration

600

Person who carries out law enforcement duties. Word and root

Officer   offic

800

Most of the Psalms

David

800

Eloquent expression of thoughts and arguments

Rhetoric

800

"U" is not treated as a follow when it appears this way

After "q"

800

Comparing with the use of "like" or "as"

Simile

800

Body part or musical instrument.  Word and root

Organ    organ

1000

Henry V's Agincourt Speech

William Shakespeare

1000

The four mathematical arts

Quadrivium

1000

Every syllable must have one of these

What is a vowel

1000

Term for recognition of the best or most 

Superlative

1000

In search of the Holy Grail. Word and root

Quest   ques

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