HOMOPHONES
YOU-PHEMISMS
ONOMATOPOEIA
CONTRACTIONS
PORTMANTEAU WORDS
LITERARY TERMS & DEVICES
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To pour down or rule over
rain/reign
100
2-letter word that means "you" in Julius Caesar's dying words
Tu
100
Listerine asks you to do this with its product twice a day
gargle
100
It can be used after a number from 1 to 12 to tell someone what direction an object is
o'clock
100
Similar to smog, smaze comes from these 2 words
smoke & haze
100
Italian for "stopping place" gives us this word for a part of a poem
stanza
200
Was acquainted with or freshly made
knew/new
200
"You" is defined as the pronoun of this "person", singular or plural
Second person
200
A droning or vibrating sound, or an excited interest in a trend in society; also a type of saw
buzz
200
It's the contracted military rank famed in cereal
cap'n
200
Here's a typical departure from this type of facility in Lower Manhattan
a heliport
200
It's the German word for a novel about the education & formative years of the protagonist; "The Catcher in the Rye" is one
a bildungsroman
300
Blabbed or rang a bell
told/tolled
300
A little-used plural of "thou", it comes before "of little faith"
Ye
300
To give a just-fed baby a pat on the back (or several)
to burp
300
A 2015 book says that for over 200 years, this word "has been knocking at the door of standard English" but is still shunned
ain't
300
Part of the name of this incendiary mixture comes from the acidic salt palmitate
napalm
300
This concept of divine intervention to resolve the plot was used in the Sophocles play "Philoctetes"
deus ex machina
400
Stabbed by a bull's horn or a drinking vessel made out of a vegetable shell
gored/gourd
400
This Brooklynese plural of "you" is a homophone of a word meaning "multiple female sheep"
youse
400
You don't need to be crazy to know that this bird, Cuculus canorus, has an odd call
a cuckoo
400
Don't confuse a 5-letter possessive pronoun with this contraction, its homophone
who's (or they're)
400
An enhanced bionic human can also be called a cyborg, short for this pair of words
cybernetic organism
400
Greek for "exaggeration" gives us this device, an intentionally exaggerated figure of speech
hyperbole
500
Take a quick look or the summit
peek/peak
500
This Southern plural of "you" is a homophone of a word meaning "a two-masted sailing vessel"
Y'all
500
This word that describes a tearful cry is a homophone for a glitzy destination for Cinderella
a bawl
500
3 contractions led to this triple rhyme phrase meaning basically "if only I had--but oh well"
woulda, coulda, shoulda
500
To retcon is to go back & fill in a fictional character's history & comes from these 2 words of 4 & 5 syllables
retroactive continuity
500
This metrical foot is 2 short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed one
anapest