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Vocab
Lit Terms
Who's Who
Dates
Read it Write
100
an excuse
What is an alibi
100
Her hair was as black as night
What is simile
100
The Twilight Zone
What is Rod Serling
100
Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
What is 1841
100
This is the use of sensory detail in a setting... "I"
What is imagery
200
a gut feeling, an inner sense
What is intuition
200
misleading clues
What are red herrings
200
cozy style
What is Agatha Christie
200
period of SACD writing
What is 1880s
200
This is a part of speech error planted in the sentence.... The young man was burying the evidence in her backyard and she called to him to help her.
What is pronoun
300
to examine carefully
What is scrutinize
300
The author freezes the plot and brings the reader back in time
What is flashback
300
Master of Suspense
What is Hitchcock
300
The Great Depression/hard-boiled style
What is 1930s 1940s
300
This is a term using opposites---Find it and name it The criminal entered the courtroom wearing an awfully cute dress.
What is oxymoron
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!! greed
What is avarice
400
The warm sunrays kissed her neck and welcomed her into the day
What is personification
400
Roman orator
What is Cicero
400
Industrial Revolution
What is mid 1800s
400
This is a homophone that is royal and also serves as a common setting in mystery
What is knight, night
500
poor
What is destitute
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! Read the following passage and identify the author technique used to create suspense.......... Emma walked out onto the gazebo in the backyard and as she did she heard a wolf howling in the distance and saw the moon slip under the cloak of the dark clouds.
What is foreshadowing
500
hard-boiled style----2 authors
What is Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler
500
Agatha Christie and cozy
What is 1920s
500
Find the term that shows repetition and identify how it is used by part of speech in the following sentence: ................... The nail entered the doorjamb, and as it did she heard a blood curdling scream (1) from the next door apartment which was holding a scream (2) therapy session, and so she screamed(3).
What is scream, noun, adjective, verb