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vocabulary
Literary genres
Poetic devices
quotable quotes
Grammar
100
You can say "drink" or this fancy verb that means the same.
What is "imbibe?"
100
A Tale of Two Cites is arguably this genre because it relates a historical event, The French Revolution.
What is historical fiction?
100
"Not on thy sole, but on thy soul..." is the use of this device in Shakespeare.
What is a pun.
100
Antonio states the first lines in the Merchant of Venice: "In sooth, I know not why I am ______ _______."
What is "so sad."
100
This sentence contains this error: The boy ate, he went to school. Using the comma to separate two main clauses.
What is a comma splice?
200
Can you use both hands equally well? Then you are this.
What is 'ambidextrous.'
200
The Merchant of Venice contains "humorous" situations and culminates (ends) in marriage.Therefore, it is suitably defined as this specific genre, within Drama.
What is a comedy?
200
"want wit" is an example of this.
What is alliteration.
200
Morocco states to Portia, "Mislike me not for ____ _________" because he is dark-skinned.
What is "my complexion."
200
When a writer combines a sentence and another, and another and another and another ....
What is a fused sentence.
300
To eat both vegetables and every other kind of food is described with this term?
What is 'omnivorous?'
300
Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus of Colonus are all Greek ____ written by Sophocles.
What is drama?
300
It is engend’red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and Fancy dies In the cradle where it lies. The device that lends these lines the same sounds at the end of each line is called this.
What is rhyme scheme.
300
The famous lines from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice are easy to recall: Tell me where is fancy bred? In the _____ or in the ____?
What is "heart ....head"?
300
When the subject and verb do not match, we say they lack ________.
What is agreement between subject and verb?
400
If you are guilty of plagiarism, then your paper is a _____________ of another, a word that is shortened as "fax."
What is facsimile?
400
Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" is an example of this genre, as well as "The Reapers."
What is poetry?
400
In the Raven, the poem includes this, which is the use of rhymes WITHIN each line: As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
What is INTERNAL rhyme?
400
Teiresias tells Oedipus that all men make mistakes, but foolish "___" is the greatest sin--the tragic flaw of Creon.
What is "pride?"
400
This type of word helps combine clauses. An example is "and."
What is a coordinating conjunction?
500
Shylock is considered a miser. An adjective that means the same and begins with "p" is this word.
What is 'parsimonious?'
500
Works that are not imaginary are labeled this form.
What is "nonfiction?"
500
The carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried, Since ships are not people, and only humans (or animals) can be "carcasses", Shakespeare is making use of this device, which lends human characteristics to inanimate objects, in this case, the "ship".
What is personification.
500
The title of Harper Lee's novel is taken from the book itself, when Atticus tells Scout it is a sin ___ _______ __ ______.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
500
"'It is cold outside" is shortened as _______ cold outside.
What is "IT'S"? (NOT ITS)