Comparing two things using like or as.
(She has a voice like an angel.)
What is a simile.
100
Clothed or Covered
What is clad?
100
To remove the water from
What is dehydrate?
100
A wearing away or rubbing away by friction.
What is abrasion?
100
When someone in the story is remembering something and telling it like it is happening now.
What is a flashback?
200
The boy is a beam of sunshine.
What is a metaphor?
200
Together (two stems)
What are com and con?
200
To wire or equip with electric power.
What is electrify?
200
A list of possessions or good on hand.
What is inventory?
200
A hint about what is going to happen in the writing.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Using words in a way that is the opposite of their true meaning.
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."
(Source: Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove, 1964)
What is irony?
300
Done in a hurray and with little attention to detail.
What is cursory?
300
To take or receive from a source.
What is derive?
300
Cautious; very careful.
What is gingerly?
300
The turning point of the story.
What is the climax?
400
To make a face expressing feelings of pain, disgust, or contempt.
What is a grimace?
400
To attempt earnestly
What is endeavor?
400
Causing shock or horror
What is gruesome?
400
The final outcome of the story.
What is the resolution?
500
To give in to; to yield
What is succumb?
500
To provide evidence to make more certain; to confirm.