Vocabulary
Foreign Terms
Sources
Commonly Confused
Literary Terms
100
praise
What is a synonym for adulate?
100
high fashion
What is haute couture?
100
an original source, unaltered
What is a primary source?
100
the stuff on your head
What is hair?
100
An overarching idea or moral from a piece of literature.
What is theme?
200
to confuse
What is the definition for befuddle?
200
what you might want when you've been on a long cruise
What is terra firma?
200
an interpretation of primary sources
What is a secondary source?
200
to expose or uncovered
What is bare?
200
A reference to something in a piece of literature.
What is an allusion?
300
to make clear
What is the definition of elucidate?
300
what you might say to a friend who keeps complaining about unimportant things
What is c'est la vie?
300
an encyclopedia
What is a tertiary source?
300
a creature related to rabbits and bunnies
What is a hare?
300
A humorous interpretation of a serious piece of literature.
What is a parody?
400
common
What is an antonym for anomaly?
400
The prom decoration committee might be described as this
What is ad hoc?
400
an article about the 1920s in a modern magazine
What is a secondary source?
400
A question used for location
What is where?
400
one thing is represented as if it is something else (also a comparison not using like or as)
What is a metaphor?
500
careless
What is an antonym for circumspect?
500
When you want to win an argument by making your opponent sick of arguing, this is how you would argue your case...
What is ad nauseum?
500
a scan of an original letter from the 1800s
What is a primary source?
500
version of the verb "to be," past tense, and used with a plural subject
were
500
deliberate exaggeration or overstatement
What is hyperbole?
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