a very small change in a system leads to very big, unpredictable consequences.
100
Define imagery.
What is the use of descriptive and figurative language?
100
What do lawmakers do if they revoke a law?
do away with it
100
Bonus :)
What is +100 points :)
100
"All children, except one, grow up." What book?
What is Peter Pan?
200
What is this quote describing? "Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh."
The T-rex
200
Metaphor or simile? "He runs like lightening."
What is a simile?
200
A word for a disturbed mental state, with possible hallucinations.
What is delirium?
200
Order the words:
"they scored had begun goal. Hardly the a game when"
What is "Hardly had the game begun when they scored a goal."
200
This is another word for word choice.
What is diction?
300
What is the event strongly hinted at as the sound of thunder?
Travis shooting Eckels.
300
"Baby you're a firework" is an example of a/an...
What is a metaphor?
300
A word that means strong, able to be stretched and compressed and then return to its original shape.
What is resilient?
300
Error correction: Not until do you grow up we will be friends.
What is Not until you grow up will we be friends.
300
George Smith sees this artist on the beach.
Who is Picasso?
400
What emotion leads Eckels to stray off the path?
Panic
400
What is this? "My brother looks like my grandfather."
What is neither metaphor or simile! Simple comparison.
400
Correct the error: "We might revoke your payment."
What is remit?
400
Correct the error: "Hardly we had sat down to eat dinner when the doorbell rang."
What is Hardly had we sat down to eat dinner when the phone rang.
400
A neighborhood that was the center of a cultural and artistic renaissance that featured many black artists.
What is Harlem?
500
After their return to the present, who has won the presidential election?
Who is Deutscher?
500
Define Personification.
What is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
500
What time period does "primeval" refer to?
What is ancient times or distant past?
500
Error correction: Scarcely had Maria made lunch when came her brother to visit.
What is Scarcely had Maria made lunch when her brother came to visit.
500
Finish the poem. "Does it dry up like a/an _________ in the sun?"