Words
Some word phrases start to have a common meaning in a society, like "Don't count your chickens before they hatch." These expressions have a name.
What are idioms?
State the correct synonym for the italicized word in "complete darkness" from these options: incomplete; absolute; finished.
What is absolute?
State the root of these: describe, scribble, prescribe. And state its meaning.
What is scribe? Which means "to write."
State the possible contraction: We would never return.
What is "We'd"?
This ocean separates North America from Europe.
What is the Atlantic?
Logos, pathos, and ethos have been explained. This one means logic is applied.
What is logos?
All buildings need a solid foundation. A synonym is one of these: base/basis.
What is base?
This prefix means "self".
What is auto?
One form of it's/its is needed for a dog chasing__ tail.
What is "its"?
This animal represents Canada.
What is a beaver?
These two words are often confused: stationary and stationery. This one means to stand still.
What is stationary?
An antonym for nervous is anxious or calm.
What is anxious?
This prefix means "against" or "opposed to."
What is anti?
The soccer player was meteor as the goal was scored. This uses a literary device.
What is metaphor?
This bay is on the southern part of Hudson's Bay.
What is James Bay?
This pun is found under you and inside you.
What is your sole/soul?
Identify the homophone error and correct it: It was fashionable to ware red shoes.
What is wear: w-e-a-r?
Erode plus this suffix means soil is slipping away.
What is erosion= "sion"?
Some writers give human qualities to non-living things, which is a literary device.
What is personification?
This woman wrote Frankenstein in the early 1800s.
Who was Mary Shelly?
This form of everyday, versus every day, is used when it's this part of speech.
What is an adjective? As in an everyday sweater, versus, I wear my sweater every day.
One of these means "also": to, two, too
What is too?
Add the correct suffix to persist: ance OR ence.
What is "ence"?
A literary device in employed here: She saw seven swans swimming.
What is alliteration? (consonance, specifically)
Lewis Carrol cautioned people to "Beware the ______ , the jaws that bite, the claws that catch..."
What is the Jabberwock?