Scarbulary
Key terms
Grammar
Poems
All of the above
100

Surgeons have to be (blank) when they are doing surgery. 

Circumspect 

100

We know that Mary Maloney killed her husband, but the police don’t. 

What is this an example of?

Dramatic Irony

100
We had to do homework tonight. 


What type of verbal is this?

Infinitive

100

Yellow woods is a symbol of what? (The Road Not Taken)

A symbol of change (fall) 

100

What is a synonym for diffuse?

Spread 

200

Webb does not allow (blank) behavior. 

Dissolute

200

In the Most Dangerous Game, the author get is inspiration from a man’s story.

What is this an example of?

Fodder 

200

I allowed myself to buy cookies.

Is this an personal, reflexive, or intensive pronoun?

Reflexive

200

For whom was O Captin! My Captain! written for?  

Abraham Lincoln

200

What is the irony in The Sniper?

The sniper who killed the other sniper, and he realized the man is his brother. 

300

New Years, Valentines Day, and Christmas is a (blank) holiday. 

Perennial

300

In the Most Dangerous Game, the color red reoccurs multiple times.

What is this an example of? 

Motif

300

The dog was hit by the car.

Is this passive or active and why?

Passive because it went object + verb + subject

300

What is the rhyming scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet? 

ABABCDCDEFEFGG

300

Jack went to the store, and he picked up groceries.

What is the anteceden?

He

400

Many people have (blank) outfits for their favorite sports team. 

Unbridled 

400

Sonnet 18 compares the girl to summer throughout the poem.

What is this an example of?

Extended Metaphor

400

What is the preposition of this sentence?

At school, I like to do my homework. 

At

400

What is the refrain in The Raven?

Nevermore

400

How old were Virginia Clem and Edgar Allen Poe when they got married?

Virginia - 13

Edgar Allen Poe - 26


500

The judge (blank) the court case

Adjourned

500

In Romeo and Juliet they both go to Friar Lawerence for advice.

What is this an example of?

Parallel structure 

500

What is the subject complement in this sentence?

She is a great baker. 

Baker - predicate noun

500

What is the fodder of The Road Not Taken?

Frost had to think about a friend who went to war and thought about the different decisions he had to make. 

500

What is the word for when you close your book, the theme. 

Denouement 

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