What's It Called Again?
Synonyms & Antonyms
In Context
Definitions
Story or Poem Elements
100

Guess the text!

"'Exactly that,' he answered. 'It could be anyone. All we guarantee is that you don’t know them. And, of course, that you wouldn’t have to watch them die.'"

What is Button, Button?

100

What's the synonym for the word "authentic?"

What is genuine?

100

He's so weird! The __ old man never ate anything other than cat food.

What is eccentric?

100

Questions that make a point rather than invite a response

What are rhetorical questions?

100

Same or similar sounds found amongst two or more words

What is rhyme?

200

Guess the text!

"Under the trees light / has dropped from the top of the sky, / light / like a green / latticework of branches,"

What is Ode to Enchanted Light?

200

What's the synonym of the word "cruel?"

What is contemptuous?

200
She always throws books and chairs when she's mad. She has to learn to control her __.

What are impulses?

200

 Poet’s attitude toward a subject

What is tone?

200

A type of lyric poetry that celebrates or praises its subject, which is usually a person, event, thing, or element in nature

What is ode?

300

Guess the text!

"And, yet, because in years he's learned / that, often times, there's something left to save, / he stops to sift the dusty earth in hands / that look for breath inside the broken lands."

What is The Drought?

300

What is an antonym of the word "limitation?"

What is scope?

300

The patient takes the medicine to __ his violent mood swings.

What is repress?

300

The writer’s responses to opposing opinions, meant to show that the writer’s position is stronger

What is counterclaim?

300

Pleasing arrangement of sounds

What is melody?

400

Guess the text!

"David Garrow, a historian and the author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, says people may think that Parks’ action was spontaneous, but black civic leaders had been thinking about what to do about the Montgomery buses for years."

What is Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin?

400

What is an antonym of the word "kindness?"

What is "oppression?"

400

Taylor does a lot of __ casting in his shows and has a tendency to cast people in his world across his shows.

What is authentic?

400

In the case of the accidental death of the insured person, the insurance company will pay the survivors twice the face value of the policy.

What is double indemnity?

400

Occurs when the author expresses a position, or opinion, on an issue or a problem and provides supporting evidence for it

What is an argument?

500

Guess the text!

"Necessity is said to be the mother of invention, but the reverse is also true. We tinker and probe, then see if our discovery fills any need, including needs we didn't know we had."

What is Never Retreat?

500

What's the antonym of the word "lightness?"

What is gravitas?

500

The team went on "Shark Tank" to find buyers for their new gaming idea. However, their delivery totally sucked and the Sharks suggested a terrible __.

What is a proposition?

500

Practical attitude or policy

What is pragmatism?

500

The way an author arranges his or her words

What is syntax?

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