General Knowledge
The following represents which type of poem?
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What is a Sonnet
"The sky was filled with fluffy clouds that soon darkened and filled the ground with huge puddles." This is an example of...
What is imagery?
In this type of speech the author will use these devices to help persuade their audience.
What is rhetorical?
This punctuation is usually used to combine an independent clause with a dependent clause.
EX. I went to the mall. It was closed for renovations.
What is a semi-colon?
This character gave macbeth the good news that he was going to be named Thane of Cawdor.
Who is Banquo?
This element of drama always gives the audience information about a character's private thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
Giving an animal, object or idea human characteristics
What is personification?
Ethos, Pathos and Logos are often used for this author's purpose.
What is Persuasion/Pesuade?
This type of noun must be capitalized, for example "Ashley Jones" instead of "ashley jones."
What is a proper noun?
What is an Aside/Soliloquy?
Inform, Persuade, Entertain
What is Author's Purpose?
Repetition of the 1st consonant sound at the beginning of words.
ex. "She sells sea shells by the seashore."
What is alliteration?
A central idea, concept, or message that is explored throughout a story.
What is Theme?
This sentence has a construction error of this type.
She went jogging, dancing, and to the mall.
What is parallel structure?
Second Witch: "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, whoever knocks."
Macbeth: "How now you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is 't you do?"
This scene depicts a mood:Comical, Eerie, Formal, Melancholy
What is eerie?
Sacrilege and Desecration
Undulate and Fluctuate
Unadulterated and Unchanged
Complacency and Satisfied/Smug
Cognizan and Aware
Provocation and Instigation
Are all examples of this.
What is a synonym?
A word or phrase that isn't taken literally
What is an idiom?
In a story line, the details that move the story forward are known as this.
What is Plot?
This punctuation is used before any coordinating conjunction (and but for or nor so yet)
What is a comma?
A verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse
The meaning of a word is also known as this.
What is Denotation?
Contradictory terms appearing in conjunction such as "love-hate relationship"
What is an oxymoron?
When a literary work evokes certain feelings in a reader it's referred to as this.
What is mood?
A statement that has no subject and no verb is known as this.
What is a Phrase?
A rhythmic pattern often used by Shakespear in his plays that had the following structure:
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example:
Two households, both alike in dignity.
What is Iambic Pentameter?