~Time is a thief.
~Roller coaster of emotions.
~ he drowned in a sea of grief.
~she is fishing in troubled waters.
What are Metaphors?
100
"Abigail brings the other girls into the court, and where she walks the crowds will part like the sea for Israel." - Arthur Miller, The Crucible.
What is an Allusion?
100
•Two people are engaged to be married but the audience knows that the man is planning to run away with another woman.
What is Dramatic irony?
100
Harry Potter vs. Valdemort
What is Protagonist and Antagonist?
100
Begin with a..
-Simile or a metaphor
-Question
-Definition
-Quotation
-Anecdote
What is a Hook?
200
•Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. -The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
What is Alliteration?
200
•Roses for romance.
•Violets represent shyness.
•Lilies stand for beauty and temptation.
What is Symbolism?
200
A man who is a traffic cop gets his license suspended for unpaid parking tickets.
What is Situational irony?
200
Juliet from the movie or novel 'Romeo and Juliet' changes significantly thought the work.
What is a Dynamic Character?
200
This is typically the last sentence of your first paragraph.
What is a Thesis?
300
As cool as a cucumber. -to be calm and relaxed, especially in a difficult situation.
(During the awful, horrifying accident, he remained as cool as a cucumber.)
What is a Simile?
300
Animal farm is an _______ of Soviet Union.
What is Allegory?
300
We had a wall between us.
What is Denotation? The word “wall” is used to suggest an actual boundary which is its denotative meaning, but it also implies the idea of an “emotional barrier”.
300
Abigail Williams from The Crucible, is wicked from the beginning to the end of the novel.
What is a Static Character?
300
Gatsby, a great man from the novel, 'The Great Gatsby' meets a tragic end when he is shot and killed.
What is a Tragic Hero?
400
•I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
•I have a million things to do.
•I had to walk 15 miles to school in the snow, uphill.
•I had a ton of homework.
•If I can’t buy that new game, I will die.
What are Hyperboles?
400
"On a starry winter night in Portugal,
where the ocean kissed the southern shore,
there a dream I never thought would come to pass
came and went like time spent through an hourglass."
-Teena Marie, Portuguese Love
What is imagery?
400
•Soft like a brick
•Hard as putty
•Clear like dirt
•As pleasant as surgery
What is Verbal irony?
400
•Aladdin, from Disney's Aladdin – This character went from thieving street rat, to dishonest prince, to honest hero.
What is Round Character?
400
•Passed away instead of died
•Correctional facility instead of jail
•Departed instead of died
What is Euphemism?
500
The bees played hide and seek with the flowers as they buzzed from one to another.
What is Personification?
500
"I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless." - "With Love" by Thin Lizzy
What is Assonance
500
The Odyssey, by Homer. A very long historical poem.
What is Epic?
500
•Indiana Jones- from Indiana Jones Trilogy – This character has continued to be a Fedora-wearing, whip-wielding, crime fighting, archeologist.
What is a flat Character?
500
•Great Depression
•Jumbo shrimp
•Cruel to be kind
•Pain for pleasure
•Clearly confused
•Act naturally
•Beautifully painful
•Painfully beautiful