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100
Book Worm
What is Epithet?
100
She was more beautiful than Aphrodite.
What is Hyperbole?
100
A short novel
What is Novella?
100
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
What is Parable?
100
A woman of grace and dignity
What is Epitaph?
200
Pro-Trade Pact vs. Anti-Trade Pact
What is Dichotomy?
200
Hangover
What is Farce?
200
Cruel kindness
What is Oxymoron?
200
Never before have I seen such beauty. I have never seen such beauty.
What is Inversion?
200
This could also be a dialect of a nation's language that is different from the dialect of neighboring areas.
What is Vernacular?
300
Teacher: Why did you do that? Student: Umm...well...you know... What is the student doing?
What is Circumlocution?
300
The arrangement of two or more ideas, characters, actions, settings, phrases, or words side-by-side or in similar narrative moments for the purpose of comparison, contrast, rhetorical effect, suspense, or character development.
What is Juxtaposition?
300
A term used to describe writing that borders on lecturing.
What is Pedantry?
300
"No man can surpass his own time, for the spirit of his time is also his own spirit."
What is Zeitgeist?
300
I catch the sound and it takes me into the cold." (Emily Raboteau)
What is Synesthesia?
400
"I think therefore I am."
What is Aphorism?
400
A person "passed away" instead of "died."
What is Euphemism?
400
"While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser." (Karl Marx)
What is Subordination?
400
Hamlet's "To Be Or Not To Be"
What is Soliloquy?
400
This expression means stated with insincerity, irony or playful exaggeration.
What is Tongue in Cheek?
500
Act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically presented. Eg: John Donne commands, "Oh, Death, be not proud."
What is Apostrophe?
500
Lacking in harmony; incompatible.
What is Incongruity?
500
“You are sunlight and I moon” – Sun And Moon (Miss Saigon)
What is Metonymy?
500
Dividing of verse (lines of poetry) into feet by indicating accents and counting syllables to determine the meter of a poem
What is Scansion?
500
Profoundly moving or extremely touching.
What is Poignant?