A narrative poem that is meant to be sung and focuses on a single tragic event.
What is a ballad?
100
What author wrote the novel Frankenstein?
Who is Mary Shelly?
100
Fierce as a dog.
What is Simile
100
"Personally, I think the weapon is somewhere near the house."
"It's probably right under our noses. What do you think, Jack?"
What is "Lamb to the Slaughter."
200
A struggle between opposing forces..
What is Conflict?
200
A long narrative poem about the life of a hero whose actions reflect the values of the group he or she belongs to.
What is an Epic?
200
Wrote the short story the 11:59.
Who is Patricia C McKissack?
200
"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."
What is Personification?
200
"I dint know mice were so smart."
What is "Flowers from Algernon?"
300
The truth is exaggerated.
What is Hyperbole?
300
The number of quatrains in a sonnet.
What is 3?
300
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
What is repetition?
300
We chose for our victim -- the only child of an influential citizen named Ebenezer Dorset.
What is "The Ransom of Red Chief?"
400
An interruption of the action to present events that took place at an earlier time.
What is flashback?
400
An free verse poem with no rythm or structure has what kind of tone between the author and the reader.
What is Conversational"
400
This author wrote the poem "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere."
Who is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
400
“I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!”
What is Hyperbole?
400
"TRUE! --nervous --very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses --not destroyed --not dulled them."
What is the Tell-Tale Heart?
500
Descriptive words and phrases that re-create sensory experiences for the reader.
What is imagery?
500
How many syllables are in each line of a Haiku?
What are 5/7/5?
500
Who created the detective genre?
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
500
These are?
buy and purchase
write and scribble
amusing and entertaining
What are synonyms?
500
In the April night, more than once, blossoms fell from the orchard trees
and lit with rustling taps on the drumskin.