Plague
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
People, Places, and Things
Outbreaks
Figurative Language
Viral Sensations
100
When you get sick, you should do this to avoid spreading illness to others around you
What is quarantine?
100
This city was the nation's capital before it was eventually moved to Washington, DC
What is Philadelphia?
100
This disease is caused by a novel coronavirus and caused a pandemic in 2020
What is COVID-19?
100
Compares two things using like or as
What is a simile?
100
An image, behavior, or idea that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms.
What is a meme?
200
When an epidemic spreads globally, we call it this instead
What is a pandemic?
200
This Virginia native was president during the yellow fever epidemic
Who is George Washington?
200
This symptoms of this sickness include fever, vomiting, yellow skin, and eventually death.
What is yellow fever?
200
Language that connects to the five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch) to create an image or description
What is sensory language?
200
This social media celebrity is one of the internet's most followed influencers
Who is Addison Rae?
300
This microscopic organism is the most common cause of epidemics
What is a virus?
300
This doctor was the first to identify yellow fever in Philadelphia and played a major role in treating people in the city
Who is Benjamin Rush?
300
This deadly plague was spread widely across Europe during the Middle Ages
What is the Black Death?
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What is the Bubonic Plague?
300
Writers use this literary device when repeating the same words and phrases to emphasize a point or an idea
What is repetition?
300
Before apps like Instagram and TikTok were developed, this Google owned website was the main way to achieve "virality"
What is Youtube?
400
Instead of attending medical schools, people who wanted to become physicians would take part in this to learn the profession
What is an apprenticeship?
400
Without this type of knowledge, disease outbreaks would be much more difficult to prevent and treat
What is scientific knowledge?
400
This type of illness has been the largest epidemic killer throughout modern history.
What is the flu?
400
Gives human-like qualities to an object or animal
What is personification?
400
This Megan thee Stallion song went viral on the video sharing app TikTok when a dance challenge for it became popular
What is Savage?
500
Dr. Benjamin Rush was a major supporter of this treatment pictured here 
What is bloodletting?
500
Many people believed that refugees from this European country brought yellow fever to the United States
What is France?
500
Most infectious disease outbreaks are "zoonotic," meaning they come from viruses and bacteria that first infect these before moving to humans
What are animals?
500
The lyric "three P's, pop, pourin', Porsches" from Gunna's song "Pushin P" is an example of this literary device
What is alliteration?
500
Considered one of the most viral videos of all time, this music video was the first ever to reach one billion views
What is Gangnam Style?
