Vocabulary
Literary Terms
Things We Read or Will Read
Poetry
RANDOM
100

Word that means to reduce in amount by using up.

What is "deplete"?

100

When the writer plants hints as to what is to come next in a story.

What is foreshadowing?

100

In A Sound of Thunder, what do the hunters time travel to shoot?

What is a tyrannosaurus rex?
100

Comparing two things without using like or as.

What is metaphor?

100

Name of Mr. Baker's youngest daughter.

Who is Imogene?

200

Root that means "hearing"

What is "AUD"?

200

Character vs. society is an example of this term.

What is conflict?

200

Name 1 of the 2 works we are reading this semester.

What is the Book Thief OR Romeo and Juliet?

200
"I once met a man from Peru,

Who dreamt he was eating his shoe.
He awoke with a fright,
In the middle of the night,
And found that his dream had come true."

Is this type of poem.

What is limerick?

200

Scottish botanist who discovered a species of tree and a species of squirrel in Oregon.

Who is David Douglas?

300
Word that means to echo or have a lasting impact.

What is resonate?

300

The atmosphere or the feeling you get from a work of literature.

What is mood?

300

The name of the short story where the barber is secretly a rebel.

What is Just Lather, That's All?

300

The meter that Shakespeare wrote in.

What is iambic pentameter?

300

The symbol of Arsenal F.C.

What is a cannon?

400

"PLE"

What is to fill?

400

The central unifying idea of a story, not the message.

What is theme?

400

The name of the author who wrote "The Necklace"?

Guy de Maupassant

400

Repetition of a vowel sound in nearby words. 

Example:

We keep the keys in the green jeep.

What is assonance?

400

What does Harry Potter eat in the 4th book to be able to breath underwater in the second task?

What is Gillyweed?

500

Word that means: "Characterized by an agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear, especially a pleasant sounding or harmonious succession of words."

What is euphonic?

500

Takes place at the end of the story and answers all remaining questions the reader may have. HINT: not the resolution.

What is the denouement?

500

The name of the prince from "The Masque of Red Death."

Prince Prospero

500
Fill in the blank:


"_____, ______ burning bright

In the forests of the night."

(Same word twice). HINT: Written by William Blake.

What is "Tiger"?

500

How do you get into the kitchen at Hogwarts?

What is, you go to the painting of a bowl of fruit, tickle the pear into it laughs into a doorknob.