Show:
Literary Terms
The Internet
More Literary Terms
Figurative Language
Hodge Podge
100
protagonist
What is the main character in a literary work?
100
An alternative name for the internet and the acronym that precedes most web addresses.
What is "world wide web?"
100
Autobiography
What is a book of someone's life narrated by him/herself such as The Diary of Anne Frank?
100
What type of figurative language does the following example contain? This bed is as hard as a rock.
What is a simile?
100
What do the following words have in common? he, she, it, they, we, us
What are pronouns?
200
Oxymoron
What is A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly”?
200
Boolean Search
What is putting words in quotation marks limits your search results to places where those words are in that order together such as “animals near barrier reef” ???
200
Biography
What is a book written about someone's life that is not written by themselves.
200
What type of figurative language does the following example contain? Ouch! That was quite painful.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Identify the words that are misspelled: The child was taken to the office to be disciplined for his mischivous behavior in the restauraunt during the field trip.
What is MISCHIEVOUS, RESTAURANT?
300
Tall Tale
What is an exaggerated, unreliable story “My uncle claims that he was raised in a drainage ditch, but it’s just another one of his tall tales” such as Paul Bunyan?
300
A 4 letter word that refers to a personal diary published on the internet
What is a Blog?
300
Point of View
What is a standpoint such as when writing in first person point of view involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “we”?
300
What type of figurative language does the following example contain? If I've said this once, I have said it a million times - put your shoes away!
What is hyperbole?
300
Choose the sentence that is written ENTIRELY correct. A. The News traveled out west last summer. ------ B. My friend Jasmine will be arriving at the Hotel in fifty two minutes. ----- C. The fluorescent lights are causing the room to overheat repeatedly, resulting in my crankiness.
What is C?
400
Antagonist
What is a secondary character that opposes the main character?
400
The part of a URL that tells you what kind of organisation has published the information, a useful way of assessing reliability.
What is the domain name?
400
Pun
What is the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
400
What type of figurative language does the following example contain? The wind seemed to cast its foul mood upon all the earth, as the trees bent from its angry wrath.
What is personification?
400
An ambiguous antecedent occurs when the pronoun could refer to more than one item in the sentence.---- how could the ambiguous antecedent be corrected? ..... The CD was in the car, but now it's gone.
What is "The CD was in the car, but now the CD is gone."
500
External Conflict
What is a struggle between a literary or dramatic character and an outside force such as nature or another character.
500
The online encyclopedia that can be edited by anyone.
What is wikipedia?
500
Verbal Irony
What is irony in which a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning such as a person saying "Oh, Fantastic!" when the situation is very poor.
500
A "colorful" term that covers literature such as conference proceedings, working papers, white papers and theses.
What is grey literature?
500
Compose a sentence that contains three of the following figurative language types: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia
What is an example..."The tiny chair sat perfectly still in the presence of the howling wind like a frightened child."