Grammar
Literary Devices
Vocabulary
R and J
Potpourri
100
Complete subject of this sentence: The blue cat licked the cheerio.
What is the blue cat?
100
They ate like pigs.
What is a simile?
100
A deep personal humiliation or disgrace
What is Ignominy?
100
The name of the clergyman who weds Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
100
The purpose of the chorus in ancient plays
What is the curtain?
200
Classification of: ‘Called her house’
What is a sentence fragment?
200
The lit lamp laughed loudly.
What is alliteration/personification?
200
Reverence and homage are considered..
What are synonyms?
200
A comparison that is made to Paris for his good looks.
What is a man of wax?
200
Creon’s fatal flaw is..
What is excessively prideful?
300
*Part of speech*: The dog jumped over the *fence*.
What is the direct object?
300
A literary device using exaggeration to make a point
What is hyperbole?
300
This word means humorously vulgar and is an adjective.
What is Ribald?
300
What are the names of the two characters that search for Romeo when he sneaks to Juliet’s balcony?
Who are Benvolio and Mercutio?
300
All short stories have this. It is usually realized by the reader at the end of the story.
What is a moral?
400
The part of speech that ends in -ing but is used as a verb
What is a gerund?
400
This technique allows the author to use contradictory and contrasting concepts placed together in a manner that actually ends up making sense in a strange, and slightly complex manner.
What is an oxymoron?
400
Part of speech of Beseech
What is a verb?
400
The significance of Rosaline in the play
Who is the girl Romeo was in love with before meeting Juliet?
400
Name of the a Greek fatal flaw
What is a Hubris?
500
The tense of *this verb* -> She *will have lived* for a long time.
What is future perfect?
500
Name of device that gives an inanimate object human qualities.
What is personification?
500
What is the *part of speech*: The mother *flouted* her daughter for sneaking out
What is a verb?
500
Juliet compares Romeo and Juliet’s love to the sweetness of.....
What is a rose?
500
This is the definition of the word, but also the feelings or ideas that come with that word
What is connotation?