Word of the Day
I mean clarity in thought or expression, like when an explanation is so clear that even your goldfish could understand it.
What is Lucidity?
I’m when two very different things are placed side by side to show contrast — like a tiny mouse next to a giant elephant.
What is juxtaposition?
I am the delicate symbol of love in the story we read, for which the Nightingale gives her life, yet I reveal the hollowness of human desire when I am ultimately rejected.
What is the red rose?
I am the art of using words to convince or persuade someone — politicians, advertisers, and speakers all use me.
What is rhetoric?
I am the largest planet in our solar system, known for my giant red spot.
What is Jupiter?
I’m the sinking feeling you get when something you believed in turns out to be false, like finding out your “all-natural” snack is just sugar in disguise.
What is Disillusionment?
I’m a direct comparison that says one thing is another — like calling your brain a sponge.
What is metaphor?
I am the small reptile who mocks the Nightingale’s belief in love, showing how the natural world sees her sacrifice as foolish.
Who is the lizard?
I am a technique that tries to make you feel sad, scared, or happy so you will agree with a message.
What is appeal to emotion?
I am the first president of the United States, famous for chopping down a cherry tree (or so the story goes).
I’m the power to take action and make your own choices, like when you finally pick the movie instead of letting your sibling choose again.
What is agency?
I’m when something stands for something bigger — like a dove representing peace, or a crown representing power.
What is symbolism?
I am the writer who filled the story with irony and beauty, reminding readers that society often undervalues art and love.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
I am the persuasive trick that makes you want to do something just because “everyone else is doing it.”
What is bandwagon?
I am the largest internal organ in the human body, responsible for filtering toxins and producing bile.
What is the liver?
I’m the hidden meaning behind the words — what characters really mean, even when they don’t say it out loud.
What is subtext?
I’m when the opposite of what you expect happens — like the fire station burning down.
What is Irony?
I am the subject the Student retreats to once his rose is rejected, proving that his passion for love was shallow.
I am the tactic where someone famous or “an expert” is used to convince you something is true.
What is appeal to authority?
I am the longest river in the world, often debated to be either in Africa or South America.
What is the Nile or Amazon?
I’m what you do when you flip the script, turning rules or expectations upside down — like making the villain secretly the hero.
What is subvert?
I’m language that paints a picture in your mind by using vivid details that appeal to the senses.
What is imagery?
I am the main literary device used by the trees talking to the nightingale.
What is simile
I am the fictional creature shown in a commercial that taught us to question what we see in media.
What is the House Hippo?
I am always coming, but never arrive; you can measure me, plan for me, and watch the clock tick, but you can never touch me.
What is time?