Vocab Words
Vocab Definitions
Name the Poet
Name the Poem
Name the Deadly Sin
100
engender
to cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition)
100
to warn or reprimand someone firmly
admonish
100
...what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William Blake
100
...what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?
The Tyger
100
Tell Tim, when he gets home from the mall, Mom wants him to make dinner.
Misplaced or dangling modifiers.
200
inundate
to fill with an overwhelming abundance
200
outstandingly bad, shocking
egregious
200
What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a Lover's head! "O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!"
William Wordsworth
200
What fond and wayward thoughts will slide Into a Lover's head! "O mercy!" to myself I cried, "If Lucy should be dead!"
Strange Fits of Passion Have I known
200
I didn't study, however, I aced the test.
incorrect punctuation of independent clauses.
300
cede
to give up (power or territory)
300
tending to cause delay
dilatory
300
It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
300
It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
300
Mistakes were made.
Passive Voice
400
dendroid
like a tree
400
to harass with persistent demands or entreaties
importune
400
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove;
William Wordsworth
400
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove;
Ode to Duty
400
I left my bike in the Jones' back yard.
misuse of the apostrophe
500
calumny
the making of false and defamatory statements in order to damage someone's reputation; slander
500
to punish
castigate
500
My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what we are:—even I Regain'd my freedom with a sigh.
George Gordon Lord Byron
500
My very chains and I grew friends, So much a long communion tends To make us what we are:—even I Regain'd my freedom with a sigh.
Prisoner of Chillon
500
Tim met John when he was in town last week.
pronoun problems