Vocabulary
Hyphens
Rhetorical Devices
Authors/Literature
Literary Devices/
Figurative Language
100

This is the name for a unit in the army.

What is regiment.

100

How would the word 

fifty five dollars be hyphenated?

What is fifty-five

100

What type of rhetorical device is 

"The tears fell from the clouds."

What is personification.

100

Who wrote "Night"?

Who is Elie Wiesel.

100

What type of literary device is:

The wind was a monster swirling through the night.

What is a metaphor.

200

What is a synonym for shiver or tremble?  

What is quiver?

200

How would "Beware of the the green eyed monster" be hyphenated?

What is green-eyed monster

200

What type of rhetorical device is

"The leaping lizard was lost in the dazzling desert."

What is alliteration.

200

Who wrote the short story "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

Who is Ray Bradbury.

200

What type of literary device is the story beneath the main story?

What is allegory.
300

The human body has many of these running throughout it. 

What are capillaries?

300
How would "He is a cold blooded killer" be hyphenated?  

What is cold-blooded killer?

300

What is a definition for the rhetorical device pathos?  

What is appeal to emotion.

300

Who wrote "The Scarlet Ibis"?

Who is James Hurst.

300

What is a reference to a person, historical event, or place called?

What is an allusion.

400

Gina was listening to music through her earbuds as she skated down the street.  She was __________ to the fact that the car was coming up behind her.

What is oblivious?

400

How would "two year old daughter" be hyphenated?

What is two-year-old daughter.

400

What is the rhetorical device that appeals to logic? 

What is logos.

400

Who wrote the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"?

Who is Sara Teasdale.

400

What type of literary device is:

"It was raining cats and dogs."

What is hyperbole.

500

The feeling was glorious when she found out that she was hired for the job.  What is the vocab word that is a synonym for glorious or wonderful?  

What is sublime?

500

How would the following sentence be hyphenated?

My brother in law wore bell bottom pants to the dance.

What is "My brother-in-law wore bell-bottom pants to the dance." 

500

Is the following an example of ethos, pathos, or logos?  

A commercial about a specific brand of toothpaste says that 4 out of 5 dentists use it.

What is ethos.  We trust 4 out of 5 dentists.  

500

What type or category (genre) of literature is "There Will Come Soft Rain" classified as?

What is science fiction or dystopian literature. 

500

What literary device is the following an example of?

In "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant, a woman borrows what she thinks is a costly necklace from a friend and loses it. She and her husband sacrifice to replace it, only to learn years later that the necklace was a fake.

What is situational irony.