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Grammar
Short Story
Poetry (POEMS)
Drama
Epic/Nonfiction
100
What is something that describes a noun/pronoun
What is an adjective?
100
What is irony
What is something that is expected that does not occur?
100
What is a simile
Compares two things using "like" or "as"
100
The highest point or turning point in a play
What is climax?
100
A long, narrative poem about a hero
What is an epic poem?
200
This part of speech describes a verb, adverb, or an adjective. Normally ends with -ly
What is an adverb?
200
What is climax
What is the highest point in the story?
200
What is personification
Gives human characteristics to non-human things
200
This is the main character in a play.
What is a protagonist?
200
Odysseus spends _____ years touring the Mediterranean Sea trying to return home.
What is 10 years?
300
What is a fragment
What is it called when you have an "incomplete sentence"?
300
When the author gives "hints" to how the story is going to go.
What is foreshadowing?
300
What poetic device is used in the following: "maggie and millie and molly and may"
What is the alliteration?
300
Act I of Shakespeare's plays are when we meet characters, get the setting, and general situation. It is referred to as...
What is exposition?
300
In an effort to fool the cyclops Polyphemus, Odysseus gives him a fake name. What was this pseudonym?
What is "nobody?"
400
What is Bob and Dylan
What is the subject in this sentence: Bob and Dylan ran across the street.
400
What is a dynamic character
When a character "changes" throughout the story.
400
This literary device refers to the author's choice of words
What is diction?
400
In Act IV, Juliet is alone on stage when she delivers a speech revealing her fear of taking a potion. What is this solitary speech is called?
What is a soliloquy?
400
This six-headed monster snatched up six of Odysseus' best men for her dinner.
What is Scylla?
500
What is a run-on
What is a sentence that displays two or more sentences that are punctuated incorrectly.
500
What is conflict
What is a struggle between opposing forces?
500
Pow! Bang! Clank! Thud!
What is onomatopoeia?
500
The audience knows that Juliet is not truly dead, but Romeo does not. What is this literary device called?
What is dramatic irony?
500
This larger-than-life character is the central character in "The Odyssey."
Who is Odysseus?