Literary Devices
The use of "buzz" or "hiss" is an example of this device that mimics a sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
This is the state of matter where atoms are packed mostly tightly together.
What is a solid?
This Egyptian ruler was known for his Tomb being discovered completely intact in 1922.
Who is King Tutankhamun (King Tut)
The largest ocean on earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The letter in an equation that stands for a value you are trying to find.
What is a variable?
The term for giving human qualities or actions to non-human things, like saying "the sun smiled down on us"
personification
The name of the organ in the human body that pumps blood throughout the circulatory system
The British troops burned down the White House in Washington DC during this war.
What is the War of 1812?
This long mountain range runs down the entire western coast of South America (also the name of a chocolate mint candy)
What are the Andes?
In the equation y = 2x + b, the number 2 tells you the steepness of the line which is called this.
What is the slope?
This is the use of hints or clues in a story to suggest what will happen later on.
What is foreshadowing?
The red storm on this gas giant is the largest in the solar system and has been going on for 300+ years
This famous document, signed in 1776, states that all men are created equal and that they have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The world's largest rainforest, mostly located in Brazil, which is home to over half of the planet's remaining rainforest.
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
Using order of operations, I should do which part of this equation first?
3 x 42 + (3 - 2)
What is 3-2 (or Parenthesis)?
This is a contradiction between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
What is irony?
What you find when you divide Distance by Time
speed = distance/time
This conflict, fought in the 1860s, began when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina
What is the Civil War?
The name for a massive, long lasting body of thick ice that slowly moves over land carving out valleys and lakes. There was once on 3 miles tall over New Hampshire and it left behind a lot of the boulders we see on our landscape.
What is a glacier?
This term refers to the point where a line crosses the vertical y-axis on a graph (It is also the "b" in y = mx + b)
What is the y-intercept?
a phrase or expression that largely or exclusively carries a figurative or non-literal meaning, rather than making any literal sense, such as "a piece of cake" or "when pigs fly"
What is an idiom?
The name of the protective, outermost layer of the Earth, which is composed of tectonic plates
What is the crust?
In 1788, five years after the US Revolutionary War, the Articles of Confederation were replaced with this document
What is the US Constitution?
Mount Everest is the world's tallest mountain. This mountain, roughly 900 miles away, is the second tallest (and far less climbed)
What is K2?
The cost of a $50 dollar shirt after a 20% discount has been applied
What is $40?