Writing
Confirming a work to say something is likely.
What is probable?
What is a verb?
The author of Winnie the Pooh who also wrote many poems.
Who is A.A. Milne?
A commonly used adverb that could be better said as: "remarkably", "extremely", or "incredibly."
What is "very"?
The author of A Double Story (also published as The Wise Woman or The Lost Princess).
Who is George MacDonald?
Refuting a work to say something teaches a bad or immoral lesson.
What is improper?
Each line of a poem begins with one of these.
What is a capital letter?
John Masefield compared the wind to this.
"I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a __________ _________."
What is a whetted knife?
An overused word in dialogue with many more descriptive synonyms such as: "exclaimed", "remarked", "whispered", or "groaned."
What is "said"?
The ill-tempered who was transformed by the end of the story.
Who is Princess Rosamond?
A short essay that praises the author of a saying and shows why the saying is useful.
What is a chreia?
This type of word can describe a verb, an adjective, or another one of itself.
What is an adverb?
In addition to his famous plays, Shakespeare also wrote many of these types of poems that start with the letter S.
What are sonnets?
The opposite of "bene" or "bon", it is a root that means something is bad.
What is "mal"?
The conceited daughter of the Shepherd and Shepherdess.
Who is Agnes?
King Arthur said, "If you be of prowess and worthiness, you shall be a _____ ____ ____ ______ _____."
What is knight of the Table Round (or Round Table)?
The noun in a sentence that the pronoun replaces or points back to, such as in the sentence: "When Jane got her test back, she was thrilled!"
What is an antecedent?
This type of rhyme, as opposed to a perfect rhyme, occurs when two words share similar, but not identical, sounds.
"What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
What is a slant rhyme?
This root means having to do with stars or space.
In the third test, the little girl in the open glade was throwing these out of her lap.
What are flowers?
"A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" In 1485, this king lost the battle and the kingdom "all for the want of a horse-shoe nail."
This type of sentence can end with a period (.) or an exclamation point (!).
What is an imperative sentence?
A pattern in poetry, used famously by Shakespeare, with each line organized into 5 pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
This prefix means "over" when added to the words "active" or "sensitive."
What is "hyper-"?
The dog who eventually returned to the Wise Woman from the Shepherd's house.
Who is Prince?