Good Grammar
"Spring" Break
Poetic Forms & Devices
Women (and some men) in literature
What Country Are You From?
100

In the sentence "Julie is amazingly talented," amazingly is this part of speech

Adverb

100

This movement began in Tunisia in 2010

Arab Spring

100

Kobayashi Issa mastered this form; Robert Hass translated one as "Don't worry, spiders / I keep house / casually"

Haiku

100

Her initials stand for Joanne Kathleen

J.K. Rowling

100

A Muscovite

Russia
200

It's the 1-syllable word that commonly precedes the verb in an infinitive phrase

To

200

This 4-word mnemonic tells you how to adjust your clocks when daylight saving time begins & ends

Spring forward, fall back

200

No. 1 of these by Shakespeare, "From fairest creatures we desire increase", urges a handsome man to have kids

Sonnets

200

If you were using an alternate name, the title of this work could be translated as "Troy Story"

The Iliad

200

A Cornishman

England

300

In & on are 2 of the most common of these words used at the beginnings of phrases

Prepositions

300

Biologist Rachel Carson wrote this 1962 environmental classic warning of the dangers of pesticides

Silent Spring

300

A comparison that uses "like" or "as"

Simile

300

In a recent poll of 125 authors, this long 1870s novel about a woman ranked as the greatest work of fiction of all time

Anna Karenina

300

A Medinan or a Khobari

Saudi Arabia

400

Absolutes shouldn't be used in comparative forms, so the Constitution's "A More" this kind of "Union" is wrong

Perfect

400

FDR's Little White House is in this Georgia town

Warm Springs

400

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Alliteration

400

Her 1960 classic begins, "When he was nearly 13, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow"

To Kill a Mockingbird

400

A Carioca

Brazil

500

In the phrase, "To boldly go where no one has gone before", "To boldly go" is a "split" one of these

Infinitive

500

"Spring Awakening" is an alt-rock musical based on an 1891 play that Frank Wedekind originally wrote in this language

German

500

Her last name is also the name of a type of bird. We read her poem "Heart to Heart." She is the first Black poet to be Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

Rita Dove

500

Some skeptics said that her novel "Wuthering Heights" must have been actually written by her brother Branwell

Emily Bronte

500

A Pinoy

The Phillipines