ROOTS
Geo, terra, hum
What are the roots for earth?
What prefix is the antonym of Post-?
What is pre-?
-lent
-ous
-ious
Excellent, jealous, rebellious
What is full of?
What is an (implied) metaphor?
The repetition of a key word or phrase.
What is anaphora?
animal, animate, magnanimous...
ANIM
What is breath, spirit, life?
Dis-
What is not?
This suffix means system or doctrine.
What is -ism?
She has a butterfly-like spirit.
What is a simile?
A sagacious saying or quote.
What is an aphorism?
degrade, gradual, upgrade, graduate....
progress, regress, egress, progression...
GRAD / GRESS
What is step?
descend, degradation, decline, despair
DE-
What is down?
-ty
-ity
-acity
empty, scarcity, sagacity
What is state of?
What is an oxymoron?
To do classwork or not to do classwork...that is the question.
What is an allusion?
Eject, project, interject, reject...
JECT
What does is to throw?
Bad noise, disturbing sad, bad guitar playing...
What is cacophony?
degrade
evade
made
-e
what is a verb suffix?
The audience knew the killer was around the corner...but only the audience knew.
[verbal, situational, dramatic irony?]
What is dramatic irony?
A police officer that robbed a bank.
[verbal, situational, dramatic irony?]
What is situational irony?
Emily Dickinson did not publish any of her poetry during her lifetime; rather, it was work published posthumously by her sister.
[What does posthumous mean?]
What is after death?
omniscient, omnipotent, omnivore, panacea, Pangea, pandemonium
omni-/ pan-
What is all?
appreciate (I appreciate you.)
appreciation (My appreciation is immense.)
Appreciative (I'm an appreciative teacher.)
Appreciatively (I hope to act appreciatively)
[What are the suffixes doing?]
What is determining a word's part of speech?
What do you call a knight is who afraid to fight?
Sir Render.
What is a pun
Oh rain, fall and wash away my tears.
What is apostrophe?