Giving human characteristics to an animal or object.
What is personification?
100
This is the single greatest thing in the history of the universe.
What is hyperbole?
100
The author/poet who penned, The Raven.
Who is/was Edgar Allen Poe?
200
A poet who was also an abolitionist as the Civil War approached. He wanted the country to remember a time when they all fought on the same side so he wrote a poem about an American hero in the Revolutionary War.
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
200
The person or force that works against the hero/main character in the story.
What is the Antagonist?
200
Words that sound like what they are define.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
"Mr. Popper, punctuality is important to this particular person."
What is an alliteration?
200
The place or time in which a story takes place.
What is the setting?
300
They gazed at him with a spectral glare,
as if they already stood aghast
at the bloody work they would look upon.
(Hint - personification used here.)
What are the meeting house windows?
300
These two children were "married" with Dora's pocket handkerchief serving as the veil.
Who are Noel and the Princess (Pauline)
300
Uses the word "like" or "as" to compare two things.
What is a simile?
300
God is my rock.
What is a metaphor?
300
My pen name is Dr. Seuss.
Who is Theodore Geisel?
400
They fired and fled.
Who are the British regulars. (Or just the British.)
400
The name used for the Bastable children's neighbor's uncle.
What is Albert-Next-Door's-Uncle?
400
Device used by an author to "show" the reader something instead of just telling him/her.
What is imagery?
400
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
What is assonance?
400
The four types of struggles or conflicts that characters face in stories.
What is character vs character
character vs God or nature
character vs himself
character vs society
500
This was riding that night. (Metaphor)
What is the fate of a nation.
500
The narrator of the Story of the Treasure Seekers.
Who is Oswald?
500
The use of words in close proximity with the same internal vowel sounds.