Figurative Language
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is simile?
The name of the book where boys are stranded on an island and slowly descend to savagery
What is Lord of the Flies?
Point of view that uses "I"
What is first person point of view?
Meaning of rupt
What is break or burst?
Choose the correct word:
After school, I had [too, to] pick up my little cousin from daycare.
What is to?
When an animal or object is given human characteristics
What is personification?
The two protagonists from Of Mice and Men
Who are George and Lennie?
Appeal to logic
What is logos
Give an example word using the morpheme "carn"
After going to the laundromat I decided to get myself an ice cream cone.
Where does the comma belong?
What is after "laundromat"?
Exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
Genre of literature that means "bad place"
What is dystopia?
Term for the main opponent or enemy in literature
What is antagonist?
Meaning of agri
What is farming?
Use the correct word in this sentence:
I went to [they're, there, their] house after school to finish a project.
What is their?
Words like "bang" "bop" "zoom"
What is onomatopoeia?
Where Just Mercy took place
What is Alabama?
The literary term for the start of the story - where we get introduced to the characters and setting
What is exposition?
The morpheme that means sun
What is sol?
I can't believe you went to paris and didn't even visit the eiffel tower.
This sentence has this kind of error
What is capitalization?
"Alligators aggregate approximately 3 meters away" is an example of this.
What is alliteration?
The author of Just Mercy (and lawyer in the case)
Who is Bryan Stevenson?
If denotation is the exact dictionary meaning of words, connotation means this.
What are the ideas and feelings associated with a word?
Give an example word using the morpheme "lum/luc"
The type of clause that can stand on its own
What is an independent clause?
When someone is saying one thing but means the exact opposite.
What is irony? Or what is verbal irony?
What object symbolized order and democracy in Lord of the Flies?
What is the conch?
When two characters who are opposites are compared to each other
What is a foil?
Morpheme that means "people"
What is dem?
An incomplete sentence
What is a fragment?
When the audience knows information that the characters in the play/novel do not it's this specific type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
The author of the very first story we read this year titled "Thank you ma'am"
Who is Langston Hughes?
A repeating symbol/theme throughout a novel
What is a motif?
If someone is described as bellicose, they are most likely...
What is aggressive?
Mean? War-like?
The name of a type of comma that is used in a list and is used before the word "and".
Example:
I went to the store to buy milk, eggs, and butter.
What is an oxford comma?
The Onion is an example of one.
What is satire?
Give one characteristic of a dystopian society
What is...
Propaganda
Restricted/censored information
A figurehead or concept is worshipped
Constant surveillance
Fear of the outside world.
Dehumanized state
The natural world is banished and distrusted.
Uniform expectations- individuality and dissent are bad
The society is an illusion of a perfect utopian world
From the German meaning "education" and "novel"
A genre of literature where the character discovers the truth of the world and has to grow up
Coming of age story
What is Bildungsroman?
What is a harsh mixture of sounds?
The F in FANBOYS
What is "for"?
"Fair is foul; foul is fair" is an example of this
What is paradox?
What did Lennie's dream symbolize?
What is the American dream? Or death of the American dream?
Latin phrase meaning "God from the machine"
When an unsolvable conflict suddenly wraps up nicely
What is Deus Ex Machina?
Meaning of a "bibilophile"
What is a book lover?
"I hate swimming, water always gets in my nose" is an example of this punctuation error
What is a comma splice?