Literary Devices
Always a fan favorite and as easy to spy as the moon in the sky!
What is a simile?
This character loves to mess with people's lives using magical potions
Who is Puck (Robin)?
This word means to work at getting someone to love you back! It's almost all vowels.
What is to woo?
It goes on and on without correct punctuation
What is a run on?
Pacific Ocean has a letter in it that's pronounced three different ways.
What is "c"?
Hope is the thing with feathers.
I hope this helps you guess what I am!
What is a metaphor?
This character loved to express herself with cursing and sarcastic remarks.
Who is Lillian?
Some people will say "fake it til you make it" but Shakespeare would use another f word to mean fake!
What is to feign?
This punctuation connects two independent clauses together.
What is a semi-colon?
There's an animal hiding in "separate"
What is "rat"?
Oh my god you are the most amazing friend ever!! I could never live without you. It's totally crazy, right?
Yeah, I like to make a big deal out of things.
What is a hyperbole?
This character was a loving mom but did not truly understand the needs of her fire children and sadly tried to end their lives and hers.
Who is Jane?
What a disaster! This word describes how very unfixable the disaster really is...
What is to be unmitigated?
A song title needs this kind of punctuation to distinguish it from a book title.
What are quotation marks?
It's the special pattern in the phrase nurses run
What is a palindrome (written the same backwards and forwards)
People tell me I burn hot only to turn ice cold a second later. What can I say? I think every yin has its yang, after all.
What is juxtaposition?
This character is a Sheriff who tried to be fair in town full of prejudice. What was his first and last name?
Who is Heck Tate?
This word means sneakily, secretly, and also stays in the family of "s" words!
Surreptitiously
I am a phrase but I don't stand alone...since I'm needy.
What is a dependent clause?
A word we use regularly is from the Japanese word meaning "pictograph."
What is "emoji?"
I can't believe you just sat there and watched the axe murderer creep up behind me while I was on the phone. Why didn't you tell me?? I might have lived through the movie.
What is dramatic irony?
He was a creative storyteller when it comes to difficult topics but also struggled with his own mental health. What's his first and last name?
Who is Art Spiegelman?
This word sounds more like one that means being in an awful mood and should remind you of Vladik's desire to save all his money.
Miserly
This punctuation often signals the start of a list.
What is a colon?
The words CRYPT, GYM, and RHYTHM feel left out in the English language because they are missing this letter.
What is a vowel?