Science
What is the smallest unit of life?
What are cells?
In 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed. Why was this important?
It gave women the right to vote!
What is imagery?
What is language that appeals to the senses?
"Piece of cake" is an example of which literary device?
What is an idiom?
Where does the digestive system start?
What is the mouth?
Muscle tissue is made up of bands of cells that contract to allow what?
What is movement?
Why was the 18th Amendment important?
It placed a nationwide ban on the manufacturing, use and sale of alcohol in the United States?
What is conflict?
What is the struggle between opposing forces?
What literary device is present below?
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
What is imagery?
What part of the immune system fights pathogens?
What are white blood cells?
What does the respiratory system take in and what does it release?
What is oxygen (takes in) and carbon dioxide (waste product)?
What was Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr known for?
What is establishing Chicago's first and the nation's most influential settlement house (community center)?
What is connotation?
What is the feeling or associations a word has, such as whether it is positive or negative?
What is the following an example of?
Don’t be scared = be brave
What is litotes?
Who hit the walk-off homerun in the 10th inning of the first game in the World Series?
Who is Freddie Freeman?
The kidneys are part of which organ system of the human body?
What is a labor union?
What is an organization of workers that bargains and negotiates with business owners over wages and working conditions?
What is assonance?
What is the repetition of vowel (a, i, o, u) sounds?
What is the following an example of?
It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr established a settlement house on September 18, 1889. What was the name of this settlement house?
What is the Hull House?
Why is the circulatory system important?
Because blood carries needed nutrients (like glucose) and oxygen to cells of the body.
Who was the first and longest running president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Who is Samuel Gompers?
What is figurative language and name two types?
What is language not meant to be taken literally?
What are simile (like/as), metaphor (direct comparison), personification (giving human qualities to an object), idiom (popular, figurative cultural expression), and hyperbole (extreme exaggeration)?
What type of allusion is presented below?
"I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and forties, when we were still kids. There aren't any good, brave causes left. If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off..."
What is historical allusion?
In 1892, union members at Andrew Carnegie's steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania went on strike to protest what?
What is a decrease in their wages?