Literary Terms
Language that appeals to the senses; visually descriptive or figurative language
What is Imagery?
Find x: 8x2=2
What is 1/2 and -1/2?
In an experiment, the researcher deliberately manipulates this.
What is the independent variable?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
NFL QB that has played in the most Superbowls.
Who is Tom Brady?
When an author uses interactions of characters, things, imagery, or events to suggest something that happens in the future.
What is Foreshadowing?
State the digit in the ten thousandths place in 1.7389
What is 9?
A principle that attempts to explain how a set of separate facts are related to one another.
What is a Theory?
An organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests in respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions.
What is Labor Union?
The highest possible score in a bowling game.
What is 300?
The way authors provide details to build a picture of a character.
What is Characterization?
State the slope intercept form.
What is y=mx+b?
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
What is Psychology?
These were racial segregation state and local laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States that continued in force until 1965
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The only athlete to play in a Superbowl and World Series.
Who is Deion Sanders?
When the reader or audience knows something a character does not know, and that knowledge in important to the flow of events
What is Dramatic Irony?
Sin(60)
What is sqrt(3)/2
The perspective of psychological science that deals with how the body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
What is Neuroscience?
The provisions in the Constitution that prevent any branch of the government from dominating the other two branches .
What are Checks and Balances?
The NBA player that has the most career assists
Who is John Stockton?
An event where the opposite of what's expected happens
What is Situational Irony?
Angles between adjacent sides of a rectilinear figure. The sum of these angles gives you 180 degrees
What are Interior angles?
The longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors
What is the Nature-Nurture Issue?
Woodrow Wilson's proposal to ensure peace after World War I, calling for an end to secret treaties, widespread arms reduction, national self-determination, and a new league of nations.
What are the Fourteen points?
This NBA team is named after a car part
What are Detroit Pistons?