Words 4
Parts of speech
Clauses
Poetry techniques
Wild card
100
To overcome in battle

What is vanquish?

100
​Before the story ended, he’d removed
the iron sliver I thought I’d die from.


What is adjective?

100

Type of clause in italics: 

Where there's music, someone chose to make a song over all other things on this earth.

What is independent clause?

100

The basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem or poetic work

What is meter? 

100

The number of syllables in a line of iambic pentameter

What is 10?

200

Nobly generous, forgiving

What is magnanimous?

200

I watched his lovely face and not the blade.

What is verb?

200

Type of clause in italics: 

Before the story ended, he'd removed

the iron sliver I thought I'd die from.

What is dependent clause?

200

The use of figurative language to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for a reader

What is imagery?

200

The number of lines in a sonnet

What is 14?

300

Definition of mendacious

What is lying, false?

300
​​​To pull the metal splinter from my palm
my father recited a story in a low voice.​​​

What is preposition? 

300

Type of clause in italics: 

​​Let me make the songs for the weary, 
Amid life's fever and fret, 
Till hearts shall relax their tension,
And careworn brows forget.

What is dependent clause?

300

A play on words often using words with similar or identical sounds but different meanings

What is a pun?

300

When Donne says, "Death be not Proud," what is the literary term for the fact that he is talking to Death and telling Death not to be proud?

What is personification?

400

Definition of macabre 

What is dwelling on the gruesome?

400

Watch as I lift the splinter out.

What is article?

400

Identify the number of independent clauses: 

Yesterday at my soccer game, I surprised myself by scoring three points; my teammates were elated, but the other team was frustrated. 

What is 3?

400

A statement that appears at first to be contradictory, but upon reflection then makes sense

What is paradox?

400

The meter used in both "Songs for the People" and "Because I could not stop for Death"

What is common meter?

500

"One Art" is not very ______ about the idea of death; instead of being overly sentimental about loss, the poem instead uses irony to express ostensible detachment from loss while nonetheless evincing actual pain beneath the surface. 

What is maudlin?

500
​I was seven when my father
took my hand like this​

Subordinating conjunction

500

Identify the number of dependent clauses:

When I walked to class today, I was excited about the possibility of playing Jeopardy, but I didn't know that my day would later get even better because I won the game. 

What is 2?

500

A rhetorical device that features the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses

What is anaphora?

500

The century in which Phillis Wheatley's poem "On Imagination" was written

What is the 18th century? (1700s)