Refers to a small class of words found in many languages that are used as replacements or substitutes for nouns and noun phrases.
What is a pronoun?
100
A word that means extraordinarily great in size, extent, or degree; gigantic; huge.
What is colossal?
100
Authors give clues to show or indicate beforehand.
What is foreshadowing?
100
The narrator of the story. (first and last name)
Who is Nick Carraway?
100
A term from 1663, a local name for a Will-o-the-wisp (L. ignis fatuus), mainly attested in East Anglia but also in southwestern England. The extension to carved pumpkins is 1837.
What is a jack-o lantern?
200
This word functions as a modifier of nouns.
What is an adjective?
200
A word which means easy and sprightly in manner or bearing.
What is jaunty?
200
A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work.
What is the antagonist?
200
A character described as having "a body capable of enormous leverage."
Who is Tom Buchanan?
200
A phrase used by children to obtain candy from neighbors.
What is trick or treat?
300
Words expressing emotion, distinguished in most languages by their use in grammatical isolation, as Hey! Oh! Ouch! Ugh!
What is an interjection?
300
To be strict or exact in the observance of the formalities or amenities of conduct or actions.
What is punctilious?
300
The time and place in which a story unfolds.
What is the setting?
300
According to the story's narrator, this character "turned out all right at the end."
Who is Jay Gatsby?
300
A grotesque sprite or elf that is mischievous or malicious toward people.
What is a goblin?
400
A phrase or clause written as a sentence but lacking an element, as a subject or verb, that would enable it to function as an independent sentence in normative written English.
What is a sentence fragment?
400
This word often refers to one who is lacking in ideas or intelligence.
What is vacuous?
400
A stanza of two lines, usually rhyming.
What is a couplet?
400
The phrase used to describe the era during which the novel takes place.
What is the Jazz Age?
400
In this scary story written by Washington Irving, a headless horseman rides through Tarrytown NY.
What is The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?
500
A written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
500
A word used to describe a person who is haughtily disdainful or contemptuous of others.
What is supercilious?
500
In drama, a moment when a character is alone and speaks his or her thoughts aloud.
What is a soliloquy?
500
Long Island is a place described as an "old island that flowered once" for their eyes.
Who are the Dutch sailors?
500
In the eighth century, Pope Gregory III designated November 1 as a time to honor all saints and martyrs; the holiday, All Saints’ Day. This phrase was used to refer to the previous evening.