Unit 11
Unit 11 +
Unit 10
Unit 10+
Lit Terms +
100
If dieting isn't something you ever think you need, then it's highly likely that you are this...and not overweight.
What is "spare"?
100
A broken leg is an example of this, a definite bodily weakness.
What is "infirmity"?
100
Small and pretty is this.
What is "dainty"?
100
Elderly women who are this often end up breaking their hips.
What is "frail"?
100
He will be the "big cheese" on campus next year, not Mr. McCabe.
Who is "Mr. Dicks"?
200
When people are rude and unfriendly, they are definitely this.
What is "surly"?
200
Casca believed that the storm and weird events of the night---like lions loose in Rome---were bad omens, that is, they were this.
What is "portentous"?
200
Orion, the Big Dipper, and the Pleiades are examples of these.
What are "constellations"?
200
Cartoons have another name; it comes from the English term which means "making alive," apparently because figures are made to move.
What is "animate"?
200
This is one of the several teachers or staff who will be retiring in just a few short weeks.
Who is "Mr. McCabe" +
300
Hurricanes could be called this weather term, too.
What is a "tempest"?
300
If something is superlative--super good, super amazing, super wonderful, or even super big--it can be called this.
What is "prodigious"?
300
If you've torn your rotator cuff in your shoulder, it's probably because you have done this to that joint.
What is "wrenched"?
300
This term for a group of people with something in common is usually used in a military context.
What is "cadre"?
300
This is the correct term for the message an author is trying to get across in his/her literary work.
What is "theme"?
400
Runners of marathons obviously have this, because they continue for 26.6 miles in spite of pain and fatigue.
What is "mettle"?
400
"How now brown cow" is an example of this kind of figurative language?
What is "assonance"?
400
GSR (gun shot residue) leaves evidence in the form of these on a shooter's skin and clothes.
What are "flecks"?
400
Nursery rhymes have this feature of poetry, but not all poems do.
What is "rhyme"?
400
The perspective of a narrator is called this.
What is "narrative point of view"?
500
Yodeling is one kind of reverberation...or, in other words, this.....
What is "replication"?
500
This is the most commonly used metrical beat used in English poetry.
What is "iambic pentameter"?
500
A defeat and disorderly retreat from battle could be called this.
What is "rout"?
500
Shakespeare wrote 154 of these.
What are "sonnets"?
500
The scent of summer air is sweet.
What is "alliteration"?
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