High School Trivia
Each class period is how many minutes long?
75 minutes
"I could hear a faint buzzing"
What is onomatopoeia?
What is an allusion?
"Life is a highway"
"life is a box of chocolates"
What are metaphors.
How many letters are in the English alphabet
26
How many hours of volunteer community hours do you require?
40 hours
"I have told you a million times."
What is hyperbole?
Like two peas in a pod.
What is a simile?
"Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hatred; hatred leads to conflict; conflict leads to suffering."
This is an example of what?
What is repetition?
"To be or not to be" comes from this Shakespearean text
Hamlet
The Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test is a mandatory provincial test that measures reading and writing skills up to the end of what grade level?
Grade 9
"It's raining cats and dogs"
What is an idiom
Words like boom, puff, grunt, boom, burp
What is onomatopoeia?
"In the moonlight, the waves dance and play with the shore"
What is personification?
What district does Katniss Everdeen belong to?
District 12
Who is H.B. Beal named after?
Herbert Benson Beal
A photograph of a seagull sitting on top of a no seagulls sign
What is irony?
“I am so tired I cannot walk another inch” or “I’m so sleepy I might fall asleep standing here”.
What is hyperbole?
He was a lion on the battlefield.
What is metaphor?
In Romeo and Juliet, what city is the play set in?
Verona.
How many English credits do you need to graduate?
The gushing brook made its way down the lush green mountains, dotted with tiny flowers in a riot of colors and trees coming alive with gaily chirping birds.
What is imagery?
The use of __________ in literature refers to playing around with words such that the meaning implied by a sentence or word is actually different from the literal meaning.
What is irony?
Deafening Silence!
What is an oxymoron
What is the poetic equivalent of paragraphs?
Stanzas