Eng 11 A
"I've got a hundred pages of homework to do tonight" is an example of...
What is Hyperbole?
A group of lines in poetry. The poetry version of a paragraph.
What is a stanza?
To successfully generate interest in their work, authors really need to know...
What is their audience?
A disagreeable thing expressed in agreeable language.
What is Euphemism?
Where you should look for missed work when you miss English class.
What is the hanging folder on the right side of the room?
A form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
Two things you have to do when integrating quotes or citing someone. (Multiple correct answers)
What are (any 2 will be accepted):
- Use quotation marks
- Cite the author
- Cite page #
- Explain your quote's significance/relevance
"Her eyes are gems" is an example of...
What is Metaphor?
A figure of speech that makes a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is Simile?
Our classroom number.
What is 2223?
When an author refers either directly or indirectly to a person, event, or thing in history or to a work of art or literature.
What is Allusion?
"That wasn't a terribly good thing to do" is an example of...
What is oxymoron?
A lumberjack just had a tree fall on them. That situation is...
What is Ironic?
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" is an example of...
What is Antithesis?
The number of languages Mr. Wise can speak.
What is 3?
When the first sounds of words are the same as in: She shook the shears at the sheep.
What is alliteration?
Metonymy is...
When one thing is used to represent another (e.g., 'I cooked the dish.')
"His tender heir might bear his memory" is an example of which literary device?
What is Assonance?
What's the name of the couplet that is formed of two SEPARATE rhyming sentences?
What is a Closed Couplet?
The high school Mr. Wise attended.
What is MRSS?
What is synecdoche?
Someone asking a question like "why does the WiFi hate me?" is an example of...
What is Apostrophe?
Type of couplet that MUST be 10 syllables long.
What is Heroic Couplet?
What is the name of the metre that sonnets and some couplets must be written in? (2 words)
What is iambic pentameter?
The name of the person who was guilty in the Spy Mystery.
Who is Jason Miller?