Grammar
Vocabulary
Literary Devices
Romeo and Juliet
Words Often Confused
100
A word that names a person, place, animal, thing, or idea
What is noun?
100
This word is a noun that means a false testimony.
What is Perjury?
100
a figure of speech in which human qualities are attributed to inanimate objects, animals, or ideas.
What is personification?
100
A poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
100
The student with straight A's and perfect SATs was not _________ (accepted or excepted) into Harvard.
What is accepted?
200
The part of a sentence about which something is told or asked.
What is subject?
200
This word is a verb which means to observe, funeral.
What is Solemnity?
200
A term used to describe words or phrases that appeal to the five senses.
What is imagery?
200
A rhyme scheme used in Shakespearean sonnets that consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
200
True or False: English is a required coarse for ninth graders at Duxbury High School.
What is False?
300
A group of words that does not express a complete thought
What is a sentence fragment?
300
An adjective meaning diligence.
What is Conscientious?
300
A reference to a literary,historical,or Mythological person or event to explain a present situation.
What is Allusion?
300
These are the dead people at the end of the play.
What is Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Lady Montague, Paris?
300
True or false: I lied down on the couch.
What is true?
400
When the subject of the sentence is not doing an action.
What is passive voice?
400
A noun - an appeal to a high power.
What is Invocation?
400
Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
What is a Hyperbole?
400
This structure of tragedy occurs in acts 3,4, and 5 of a play.
What is the falling actions?
400
The girl _______ (raises or rises) from her bed in the morning.
What is rises?
500
He gave the gift to (her/she).
What is her?
500
An adjective- producing no result or effect.
What is Futile?
500
A contrast of two contradictory terms for the sake of emphasis.
What is an oxymoron?
500
She was extremely tiny, "no bigger than an agate stone", and is some sort of insect and visits people in their dreams.
What is Queen Mab?
500
I won’t talk to the ___________ (principal/principle) because I didn’t do anything wrong!
What is principal?
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