Lit Device Detection
Vocab Challenge
Streetcar Throwbacks
Halloween Riddles
Things that Scare Ms. Klehr
100

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth

And delves the parallels in beauty's brow,

Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth,


Personification

100

A group of lines in a poem.

Stanza

100

Who said: “I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people.”

Blanche

100

You may see this creature by the light of the moon.

You can start running but it will likely catch you soon.

You can hope for escape with the rising sun.

But you have a better chance with silver bullets and a gun.

What am I?

What is a werewolf

100

What pet animal is Ms. Klehr the most afraid of?

Cats

200

"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, So do our minutes"

Simile

200

A sentence or phrase in a poem does not end with the completion of a line but instead it continues onto the next line or lines without a punctuation mark.

Enjambment

200

Who said: “It looks to me like you have been swindled, baby, and when you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code I’m swindled too.”

Stanley

200

I don’t have eyes, but once I did see. Once I had thoughts, but now I’m white and empty. What am I?

What is a skull

200
How many scary movies has Ms. Klehr seen? 

(A) Zero (B) Less than 5 (C) Less than 10 (D) 10+

(A) ZERO -  Never has she, nor will she, ever watch one

300

 "drunk delight"

Alliteration

300

 A stop or pause in a line

Caesura

300

Who said: "What have I done to my sister? Oh, God, what have I done to my sister?"

Stella

300

I am present, but also past. I am wrapped, but not a gift. I am named after a parent, but have no children.

What is a mummy

300

Can't catch me, not matter how fast you run. Surrounded by be, I make you lose sight. Yet, in me, the world takes rest.

Darkness

400

"Seven at the Golden Shovel"

Metaphor 

400

A statement that seems to contradict itself to convey an ironic truth.

Paradox

400

Symbol of the patriarchy

Poker table

400

The person who built it sold it. The person who bought it never used it. The person who used it never saw it. What is it?

What is a coffin.

400

Ms. Klehr's sister, Emelie, bought a house where the previous owner mysteriously died. 

Who in the Klehr family believes that it is haunted? Ms. Klehr, her Mom, her Dad, her sister

Her Mom

500

"Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.

I am a part of all that I have met"


Allusion

500

The last two lines of a sonnet that typically contain its core meaning.

Couplet

500

Symbol of fragility and Blanche’s facade that eventually gets torn down.

Paper lantern

500

What kind of makeup is a ghost’s favorite to wear?

What is mas-scare-a.

500

What is Ms. Klehr's biggest fear out of this list: Heights, clowns, large birds, marrying the wrong person, having an annoying child

large birds