Vocabulary
Literary Terms 1
Literary Terms 2
Grammar/Punctuation
Anything
100
Definition: To give up or surrender
What is Forfeit?
100
This is where and when a story takes place
What is the setting?
100
This is defined as "language that appeals to one or more of the senses"
What is imagery?,
100
Is this a fragment? Went with my brother.
Yes
100
True or False: Shakespeare was French
What is False
200
Definition: To lecture or scold
What is reprimand?
200
This is a fourteen-line poem that has a special rhyming pattern.
What is a sonnet?
200
This is when there's a difference between what you would expect to happen and what actually does happen?
What is situational irony?
200
Name four of the seven coordinating conjunctions.
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
200
This is type of irony is defined as "When the audience knows something that a character in the story does not know"
What is dramatic irony
300
Definition: To make impossible
What is preclude?
300
This is a reference to a famous person, place, event, or literary work.
What is an allusion?
300
This is defined as "overstatement or exaggeration"
What is hyperbole?
300
This sentence in an essay is defined as "One sentence at the end of the intro paragraph which gives the reader a solid idea of what will be discussed in the essay."
What is a thesis sentence
300
In poetry this is the term for a group of lines. These groups are often separated by a space or an indentation on the page.
What is a stanza?
400
Definition: Very generous or forgiving
What is Magnanimous?
400
This refers to two contradictory words that are placed next to each other. Shakespeare uses one when Romeo describes his "heavy lightness"
What is an oxymoron.
400
The following are examples of what from Romeo and Juliet? "Love is a powerful force that can drive people to do crazy things" "Individuals must sometimes fight against society"
What are themes?
400
Is this semicolon used correctly in the sentence below: There's nothing I like better than a cold glass of lemonade on a hot day; it's my favorite summertime drink.
What is yes
400
This is the definition of the word "augment"
What is, "to increase in size or make bigger"
500
Definition: Stated clearly and in detail
What is Explicit?
500
True or False: Tone refers to how loudly a character is talking to another character?
What is False. Tone is the author's attitude toward a subject.
500
Friar Lawrence's quote below is an example of what poetic term? "Or, if not so, Then here I hit it right Our Romeo hath not been in bed tonight"
What is a couplet?
500
Where would you break up this run-on sentence? This next chapter has a lot of information in it you should start studying right away.
What is after the word it.
500
Other than Romeo and Juliet, name three characters who die in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Who are Lady Montague, Mercutio, Paris, Tybalt