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Literary Devices
Awesome Adjectives
Vivacious Verbs
Nifty Nouns
Pot Luck
100
Language appealing to the 5 senses
What is imagery?
100
Vague or unclear
What is ambiguous?
100
To give in
What is to acquiesce?
100
14 line love poem
What is a sonnet?
100
To lessen in intensity
What is to abate?
200
Reference to a well-known literary work
What is an allusion?
200
Stubborn
What is obstinate?
200
To place to opposite things side by side for comparison
What is to juxtapose?
200
Severe test
What is a crucible?
200
To take something and run
What is to abscond?
300
Extreme exaggeration (for emphasis)
What is a hyperbole?
300
Short and to the point
What is succinct?
300
To give up a position of authory
What is to abdicate?
300
Sentence Structure
What is syntax?
300
Unable to be filled or satisfied
What is insatiable?
400
Repetition of beginning sounds of words in a phrase
What is alliteration?
400
Lucky
What is fortuitous?
400
To bring someone down or humiliate them
What is to abase?
400
Fame or recognition
What is renown?
400
Harmless
What is innocuous?
500
Repetition of words at the end of a group of sentences.
What is antistrophe?
500
Highly skilled
What is deft?
500
To yell at someone
What is to accost?
500
Righteous anger
What is indignation?
500
Everywhere
What is ubiquitous?