Saying something other than what is literally meant for effect.
What is Figurative language?
100
Person, place, or thing.
What is a Noun?
100
Hundreds of thousands of Americans moved to the North during the 1920s
What is the Great Migration?
100
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
Show the class how to perform the Charleston.
How do you perform the Charleston?
100
This author wrote 'The Sun Also Rises' and 'A Farewell to Arms.'
What is Ernest Hemingway?
200
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing using like or as; used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.
What is a simile?
200
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.
What is a Verb?
200
This city experienced a literary and artistic movement celebrating African American culture.
What is Harlem?
200
The number of individuals needed for this type of dance does not matter
The Charleston
200
This Author wrote 'The Great Gatsby' and 'The Side of Paradise.'
Who is F.S Fitzgerald?
300
Figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two.
What is a metaphor?
300
A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
What is an adjective?
300
In 1919, an amendment banned the sale and transport of alcohol; also known as the Volstead Act
What is the eighteenth amendment?
300
The first step we learned.
What is Rocking step?
300
fashion designer and business woman.
Famous quote: "Don't be like the rest darling."
Who is Coco Chanel?
400
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is alliteration?
400
Examples include Trumpet, Saxophone, New Orleans, Harlem, and Louis Armstrong.
What is a Noun.
400
This poet was from Missouri, and his poems moved to jazz and blues
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
This type of music is used for the Charleston.
What is Jazz?
400
"The most famous person who ever lived."
Known as "The Tramp", he was famous for silent movies and lost fame due to looking like Hitler
Who is Charlie Chaplin
500
Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
What is Imagery?
500
Set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language
What is Grammar?
500
This type of music became popular in a certain city during the early 20th century.
Jazz in New Orleans
500
The Charleston was named after a city in this state.
What is South Carolina?
500
American gangster who attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.