Idioms and
Ditty-omes
Ditty-omes
Word meaning to cover up, using a "shadow" as a sort of blanket to put "over" something.
What is to overshadow?
What is unconstitutional?
Noun beginning with "A" that means extreme pain, distress, or anxiety. Rhymes with "vanquish".
What is anguish?
Claiming to have moral standards or beliefs; however, one's own behavior does not actually meet such standards.
What is hypocrisy?
To use rich visualization and sensory description to describe a place or thing. Begins with "I".
What is imagery?
A very story story that authors use for a specific purpose? Sounds like "antidote", but that's used for snake bites!
What is an anecdote?
An amendment to the US Constitution that prohibits any law limiting freedom with respect to religion, expression, peaceful assembly, or the right of citizens to petition the government.
What is the First Amendment (to the US Constitution)?
Adjective describing a thought or feeling that is very great, intense, significant or deep.
What is profound?
A nonlethal spray containing purified tear gas and chemicals that temporarily knock a person out. It's used as a means of subduing rioters. Word begins with the letter "M". It's not pepper spray or tear gas.
What is mace or chemical mace?
A description of the distinctive nature or features of someone or something to a point that you can get a full picture of the person in a novel or other story. Begins with the letter "C".
What is characterization?
Making bull (e.g. a dangerous and difficult problem) into a steer (a harmless solution).
What is transforming bull into steer?
A judicial court order that restrains a person from beginning or continuing an action, threatening or invading the legal right of another, or that compels a person to carry out a certain act.
What is an injunction?
Verb beginning with "R" that means to address (someone) in such a way as to express disapproval or disappointment. Rhymes with "cockroach".
What is reproach?
What is civil disobedience?
The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of politics and other viewpoints. Begins with the letter "S" and rhymes with "campfire".
What is satire?
An idiom phrase meaning that in one personal "policy" it is best to be "honest"?
What is Honesty is the best policy?
A two word phrase that means an alternative view or "interpretation" that can reasonably be argued and that has points in its favor that can be reasonably "defended" in a debate.
What is a defensible interpretation?
Noun beginning with "B" that means candies especially ones covered in chocolate. Rhymes with "pom-poms".
What are bonbons?
Fill in this idiomatic phrase:
"Well-behaved ____________ seldom make history."
What are women?
Using small things to describe bigger concepts. Begins with "D" and rhymes with "emails".
What are "details"?
An idiom meaning that people often drag down other people to their level out of envy or hate - like a bunch of crabs preventing each other from escaping capture.
What is to act like a basket (or bucket) full of crabs?
A claim or proposition that is supported by an argument using logic and evidence. Begins with the letter "T" an rhymes with "Reese's".
What is a thesis?
Adjective derived from the word "habit" that means regularly or repeatedly doing an action.
What is habitual?
A person who is in the political movement to ABOLISH slavery. Use a derivation of "abolish" within the word.
What is an abolitionist?
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. Begins with "D" and rhymes with "fiction".
What is diction?
Movement of writers and philosophers starting in New England that believed in the innate goodness of humanity, the supremacy of wisdom from life experiences and the value of challenging societal norms. Members: Henry David Thoreau, Ralf Waldo Emerson, Oscar Wilde.
What are transcendentalists?
A recorded list of ones legal complaints. Begins with letter "G" and rhymes with "sequences".
What are grievances?
Adjective beginning with "M" meaning to feel, express, or bring about sadness, regret, or grief. Rhymes with "mouthful".
What is mournful?
A political leader who seeks support by appealing to the emotions and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument. Begins with "D" and rhymes with "pick-a-pog".
What is a demagogue?
A type of communication that does not use a word's strict or literal meaning. This type of literary device is usually used by an author to add creative dimensions to written or spoken language or to explain a complicated idea.
What is figurative language?
A two word phrase that means uniform standards that have become "normal" in "society".
What are societal norms?
Two word hyphenated word that means someone who expresses another person's ideas; a spokesperson. Begins with "M" and rhymes with "gold-fleece".
What is a mouth-piece?
What is a peignoir?
The political movement to secure racial equality in the United States for African Americans that challenged the practice of racial segregation and achieved equal rights legislation for all. The period is generally considered to be from 1954 through 1968.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
A word for the devices that are used to convey meaning, to provoke a response from and to persuade a listener. They can be used in writing, in conversation or in a speech - like the use of sarcasm and repetition in Mark Antony's speech at Caesar's funeral.
What are rhetorical strategies? Also known as rhetorical devices.
Verb beginning with "U" that means to find fault with (someone); to scold someone. Rhymes with "ice skating".
What is upbraiding?