Grammar 1
A noun that cannot be conjugated in plural/number.
What is an uncountable noun?
The relative pronoun which is used when referring to the object of a sentence.
What is "whom"?
A personality weakness that may result in the downfall of an individual.
What is a tragic flaw?
A movie which stars James McAvoy in the leading role and portrays him as a jealous cook.
What is "Macbeth Retold"?
"She slipped her feet out of her shoes at the same time and so walked barefoot as well as naked. IT all happened very quickly."
What is "Clara's Day"?
A word or phrase added to a sentence which is missing something, e.g. before a that-clause
What is a prop-word?
A word which describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
The act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when alone or regardless of others around them.
What is a soliloquy?
A movie about a poor Indian boy whose life is controlled by fate.
What is "Slumdog Millionaire"?
“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”
What is "1984" by George Orwell?
A verb that is not conjugated in the typical way.
What is an irregular verb?
A word that can describe adjectives, verbs, etc. (but not nouns).
What is an adverb?
A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing/taboo.
What is a euphemism?
A movie about a terrorist that attempts to fight his oppressors.
What is "V for Vendetta"?
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.
What is Shakespeare's Macbeth?
And error which relates to the relationship between the subject and verb.
What is a concord error?
The grammatical case which relates to or denotes a case of nouns and pronouns (and words in grammatical agreement with them) indicating possession or close association.
What is the genitive case?
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one or unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
A movie about a young woman's attempt at finding love, loosely based on a 1800's novel.
What is "Bridget Jones' Diary"?
Go bind your sons to exile. To serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild — Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.
What is "The White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling.
The order in which English is typically written.
What is direct word order?
The act of translating something directly from Danish to English resulting in language that isn't correct.
What is Danglish?
Beware of the Thane of Fife / no man born of a woman shall harm Macbeth / Macbeth is safe until the forest comes.
What are the three apparitions?
A movie about a young woman who has a hard time detaching herself from her mother.
What is "Black Swan"?
"I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks."
What is Shakespeare's Sonnet 130?