Vocab
This "app" word describes a ghostly figure.
What is an apparition?
Due to this war, roughly 620,000 people died (about 2% of the nation's population at the time).
What is the Civil War?
Rod Serling wrote scripts and narrated episodes for this classic Sci-Fi television show from the 1950's-60's.
What is the Twilight Zone?
This is a figure of speech involving a comparison of two different things using "like" or "as" in order to make the description more emphatic or vivid.
What is a simile?
Two letters that state a numbered score of how far above, or how far below, an individual stands in mental ability.
What is IQ? (Intelligence Quotient)
This scare was the fear of communism spreading in the United States, and was prevalent in history twice. The most extreme being after WWII in the 1950's.
What is the (second) Red Scare?
This fictional laboratory rat was named after a poet and had his intelligence tripled.
Who is Algernon?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman.
What is personification?
This word dates back to biblical times used for religious sacrifices. Today, it is used to describe a person receiving the blame unjustly in order for the accuser(s) to escape the blame themselves.
What is a scapegoat?
This country controlled the east side of Berlin from the 1960s to the early 1990s while the Berlin Wall was up.
What is the Soviet Union / Russia?
The author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" stayed with this family and asked Katrina if he could use her name for a character in his story.
Who are the Van Tassels?
Exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
This term describes the working class, especially when discussing communism.
What is proletariat?
This disease is an infection of the intestines and was the number one killer during the Civil War. Soldiers got it from contaminated water.
What is dysentery?
This author (who shares a name with a US president, but as a first name) wrote the Halloween short story, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
Who is Washington Irving?
A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.
What is a metaphor?