You define it!
Spectacular Synonyms
Amazing Antonyms
What's the word?
Review: Literary Elements
100

Homely 

Not pretty or handsome; plain 

100

Provide a synonym for the word sweltering 

Hot; Humid; Muggy 

100

Provide an antonym for the word adhere.  

unsupported, to ignore

100

Someone who works at a boring, repetitious, physically demanding or menial job.

Drudge 

100

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared the words using like or as. 

ex. This gum is like a rock! 

Simile

200

Mire

cause to get stuck as if in a soft, wet area 

200

Provide a synonym for the word chide. 

Scold, lecture, reprimand 

200

Provide an antonym for the word din. 

silence, quiet

200

Complete spiritual ruin, total destruction; a state of eternal punishment  

Perdition 

200

Giving human characteristics to something that is not human. 

Ex: The sun overhead smiled down at us. 

Personification 

300

Apothecary

A person who prepares and sells medicines

300

Provide a synonym for the word sham. 

Fake, Fraud 

300

Provide an antonym for the word ashen. 

Rosy, Flush, Glowing 

300

An angry or sullen look or stare; scowl 

Glower 

300

A great exaggeration.  

Hyperbole

400

Din

A loud steady noise 

400

Provide a synonym for the word garb. 

clothing, attire

400

Provide an antonym for the word chide. 

Praise, Compliment 

400

A loud, steady noise.

Din

400

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared (without the use of like or as). 

Metaphor

500

Ashen

Pale from illness or emotion 

500

Provide a synonym for the word meager. 

Scant, inadequate, modest, little

500

Provide an antonym for meager. 

abundant, full 

500

To laugh quietly or with restraint. 

Chortle 

500

The unifying element of a story in which other elements of the story can be linked. A universal truth, experience or idea found in a work of literature. 


Ex: Survival; Innocence; Growing Up; Identity


Central Idea