Literary Terms
"Sign that kid up! He runs like a thoroughbred" is one of these comparative figures of speech.
What is a simile?
To take (the work or an idea of someone else) and pass it off as one's own.
What is plagiarize?
The round fruit of a tree of the rose family, which typically has thin green or red skin and crisp flesh.
What is an apple?
Shadow the Hedgehog
What is Sonic?
This type of code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.
What is Morse code?
4-letter word for the storyline of a book: occasionally it's been known to thicken.
What is the plot?
A forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system.
What is revolution?
This vegetable is the sweeter, smaller and less intense brother to the onion.
What is shallot?
Tom Nook.
What is Animal Crossing?
That's affirmative!
25-5-19
What is yes?
A trite or stereotyped phrase, it's literally French for "stereotype", a printing term.
What is cliché?
A person walking rather than travelling in a vehicle.
What is pedestrian?
This vegetable, often known as a courgette looks somewhat like a cucumber but has a woody end and sometimes a flower.
What is zucchini?
Johnny Cage.
What is Mortal Kombat?
This mathematician was famous for his work developing the first modern computers, decoding the encryption of German Enigma machines during the second world war, and detailing a procedure known as the Turing Test, forming the basis for artificial intelligence.
Who is Alan Turing?
Using a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal meaning.
What is irony?
A person with an outstanding intellect; plan and direct (an ingenious and complex scheme or enterprise).
What is mastermind?
This Chinese fruit is small and has a red skin that peels off; it tastes sweet with a slight floral scent.
What is lychee?
Samus Aran.
What is Metroid?
This famous cipher involves each letter in the plaintext replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet, typically 3 letters back.
What is the Caeser cipher?
Lewis Carroll came up with this 11-letter term for a blended word like smog from smoke & fog.
What is portmanteau?
A group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs.
What is federation?
Similar to spinach, this leafy green vegetable has thick white stems and large leaves
What is silverbeet?
Glass Joe.
What is Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!?
This board game invented in 1970 where the code breaker attempts to guess the code using 6 colours in 4 holes.
What is mastermind?