Music Mania
This Italian term instructs musicians to gradually get louder.
crescendo
This gas is the largest contributor to human-caused greenhouse emissions.
carbon dioxide
Repetition of the same initial sound
Alliteration
“The only thing we have to fear is… fear itself.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This punctuation mark is used to link closely related independent clauses without a conjunction.
semicolon
This composer went deaf later in life yet continued composing some of his most famous works.
Beethoven
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 triggered this global conflict.
What is World War I
A contradiction in terms, like “bittersweet”
Oxymoron
Who wrote The Great Gatsby?
F. Scott Fitzgerald
This rhetorical device involves deliberate repetition at the beginning of successive clauses.
anaphora
This term describes the simultaneous combination of different rhythms in music.
polyrhythm
This movie features the quote, “I’ll be back.”
The Terminator
A reference to a famous person, event, or work
Allusion
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell
What’s a palindrome? Give an example
A word/phrase spelled the same forwards and backwards, e.g., “racecar.”)
This musical period came between the Baroque and Romantic eras.
Classical period
What is a false dichotomy
This term describes an argument that presents only two options when more exist.
A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds—often unpleasant or jarring to hear
Cacophony
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
Jane Austen
This term refers to the omission of words that are understood from context.
ellipsis
What is the term for a recurring theme or melody in music, often representing a character or idea (used famously by John Williams in film scores
(A: Leitmotif)
This country has the highest number of official languages in the world.
Zimbabwe
A situation where the audience knows something the characters do not
Dramatic Irony
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, later a TV series, is titled…
The Handmaid’s Tale
This type of clause cannot stand alone as a sentence and usually begins with a subordinating conjunction.
dependent