What is the prefix contained within the poetry term that means a deliberate exaggeration, often used to be funny.
What is hyper?
100
Harold. Wow. That dude is pretty ugly.
Two terms.
What are oxymoron and onomatopoeia?
100
Did you know that dolphins click when talking to each other? Scientists have also discovered that the animals have names for each other..
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The meaning of the prefix inter
What is between?
200
What does the suffix ess change about the root word?
It makes it feminine.
200
The Night of the Living Dead is a classic horror movie, but it is not very scary by today's standards.
What is oxymoron?
200
The stars danced across the sky in a joyous pattern.
What is personification?
200
If your major in college is pre-historical dragonessology, what would be your job description?
What is researching female dragons that lived before recorded history?
300
Provide the meaning and an example for the prefix intra.
What is within and intramural or intranet?
300
What is the suffix used in the word terrify and what does it mean?
What is fy? It means to make.
300
Steve is mean. He told me to shut my trap!
What is metaphor?
300
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
Two terms?
What are simile and metaphor?
300
Name four of the five professional football teams that use alliteration in their names.
What are Tennessee Titans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills, and Seattle Seahawks?
400
List both meanings for the prefix para and provide an example for each.
What is support or false? Parachute and paranormal.
400
List the suffix that means name or word and provide two examples of its use.
What is nym? Antonym and synonym.
400
I would like a brontosaurus,
I would name him Horace or Morris,
But if suddenly one day he had
A lot of little brontosauree,
I would change his name
To Laurie.
What is AABCDC?
400
Would you like to hear
Of the terrible night
When I bravely fought the-
No?
All right.
What is ABCDB
400
Edgar Allan Poe is famous for his imagery filled stories and masterful use of figurative language. List one year that Poe was alive.
What is 1809-1849?
500
List the prefix with the meaning forward and provide an example that uses it correctly.
What is pro and promote?
500
Name two suffixes that mean a place for.
What is ory and orium/arium?
500
In the wide-world of middle school drama, love is a battlefield.
Three possible terms. (not connotation)
What are metaphor, hyperbole, and alliteration.
500
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
And she grew so tall,
She ate from a plate called TASTE ME
And down she shrank so small.
And so she changed, while other folks
Never tried nothin’ at all.
What is allusion?
500
There once was a man from Peru,
who dreamt he was eating a shoe.
He awoke in the night,
with a terrible fright,
and found out that it was quite _____.