The name of the object doing the action of the verb.
What is the Subject?
100
means "distasteful; disagreeable; morally offensive"
What is unsavory?
100
Who says: "The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb. / What is her burying grave, that is her womb; / And from her womb children of divers kind we sucking on her natural bosom find, / Many for many virtues excellent, / None but for some, and yet all different." (Act II, Scene iii)
Who is Friar Lawrence?
100
A phrase using like or as to compare two dissimilar objects.
What is a simile?
100
In the sentence: "I like to eat pie." to eat is what part of speech?
What is an infinitive.
200
Name the object that receives the action of the verb.
What is the direct object?
200
An adjective meaning: disobedient, willful; unpredictable, capricious
What is wayward?
200
Who says: "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. / Thou art thyself, though not a montague. / What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, / Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part / Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! / What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet."
Who is Juliet?
200
The use of two complete opposites to get a point across.
What is an oxymoron?
200
Giving her the potion, Friar Lawrence told her to be careful and that he would tell Romeo. "Giving her the potion" is what POS?
What is a Participle Phrase?
300
In the sentence: "This is the best place on Earth to eat hamburgers.", "on Earth" is what type of clause or phrase?
What is a prepositional phrase?
300
Another word for a tomb.
What is a sepulcher?
300
"This night you shall behold him at our feast. / Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, / And find delight writ there with beauty's pen, / Examine every married lineament, / And see how one another lends content; / And what obscured in this fair volume lies / Find written in the margent of his eyes. / This precious book of love, this unbound lover, / To beautify him only lacks a cover."
Who is Lady Capulet?
300
a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication
What is allusion?
300
Giving can be used as what three parts of speech?
What is a gerund, participle and verb
400
In the sentence: "We decided that the movie was too violent, but our children, who like to watch scary movies, thought that we were wrong," "who like to watch scary movies" is a dependent clause acting as a what?
What is an appositive.
400
Meaning: a statement which can be taken more than one way
What is ambiguities?
400
"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!"
Who is Mercutio?
400
meow and honk are examples of it.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Name the indirect object in the following sentence: The king gave the servant the crown to be polished.
What is the servant?
500
Name the independent clauses in the sentence: "I usually use a pick whenever I play the guitar, but sometimes, I just use my fingers."
What is I usually use a pick and I just use my fingers?
500
Meaning: to become less in amount or intensity; to end
What is to abate?
500
"Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain! / Most detestable Death, by thee beguiled, / By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown. / O love! O love! not life, but love in death!"
Who is Paris?
500
words spoken so as not to be heard by others present.
What is an aside?
500
"Although I like to go camping, I haven't had the time to go lately, and I haven't found anyone to go with." is a what kind of sentence?