Trying to understand the justification for standardized tests is like skydiving without a parachute.
What is analogy?
100
The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning. The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.
What is context?
100
"War is peace"
"Freedom is slavery"
"Ignorance is strength"
-George Orwell
What are examples of Paradox?
100
The state where Mrs. Samkavitz went to high school.
What is Florida?
200
A word that imitates the sound it makes.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
Time is money.
What is an example of Metaphor?
200
A state or quality of feeling at a particular time, the emotional effect of a poem or story.
What is mood?
200
"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their Altitude"
-Rev. Jessie Jackson
What is an example of parrallelism?
200
The trees are dancing in the wind
What is personification?
300
A reference (shout out) in a poem/story to a person, place, or thing to help create a mental picture.
What is an allusion?
300
The old man is as blind as a bat.
What is an example of Simile?
300
Oxymoron.
What is the use of contradictory terms (together) for effect?
300
The wolf in "The Three Little Pigs".
Who is the Antagonist?
300
The number of people in this class
What is 26?
400
The use of contradictory terms for effect.
What is an oxymoron?
400
Glove is to hand as shoe is to foot.
What is an example of Analogy?
400
The use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like. A type of literary composition in a verse or prose.
What is Satire?
400
Name four pronouns that "always" take a singular verb
What are: each, Nobody, everybody, no one, everyone
400
The US state where the first chocolate bar was created.
What is Pennsylvania?
500
The repetition of the initial consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
500
POW!
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Irony.
What is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning?
500
When I was your age I had to walk fifteen miles (both ways up-hill) to and from school and it was through shoulder high snow the whole way!