Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Romeo and Juliet
Short Stories
Poetry
100
The vocab word means ‘having to do with young people or youth’
What is juvenile?
100
The act of giving a non-human entity human qualities.
What is personification?
100
This is the name of the holy man that Romeo and Juliet go to for advice.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
100
This style of tone, often used by O. Henry, is marked by its proper-sounding, academic, and eloquent nature.
What is formal tone?
100
What is the alliteration on this line?
Let me not to the marriage of true minds…
Let me not to the marriage of true minds…
200
This vocab word means ‘depressing, grey, and melancholy’.
What is dreary?
200
The physical descriptions and personality traits that an author creates to make a character unique.
What is characterization?
200
“These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.”
This is an example of what literary device?
What is simile?
200
This item was used to symbolize Luis’ newfound love for others and his determination to do the right thing. It looks a lot like a silvery moon.
What is the hubcap from "Catch the Moon"?
200
This word, repeated by a raven above a doorway, embodies the grim and hopeless tone of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem on grief.
What is 'nevermore'?
300
This vocab word means ‘a strong and violent storm’.
What is a tempest?
300
The main idea or lesson that an author is trying to portray.
What is theme?
300
Shakespeare uses this figurative language when he references Roman gods like Cupid and Diana.
What is an allusion?
300
These three are figures from the Bible that O. Henry references in allusions in his story ‘Gift of the Magi’.
Who are the wise men, King Solomon, or the Queen of Sheba?
300
This style of poem, popularized by Shakespeare, is identified by its 14 lines and rhyming couplets on the final two lines.
What is a sonnet?
400
This vocab word means ‘rude or lacking sophistication’ and often is used to refer to curse words.
What is vulgar?
400
An example of this figurative language might be: bleach blond, badly built, butch body.
What is an alliteration?
400
What two things is Juliet comparing with this metaphor:
“O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die”
Herself and a dagger sheath.
400
This is how Jim and Della’s relationship is characterized in ‘Gift of the Magi’.
What is loving, sacrificial, and romantic?
400
What is the rhyme scheme of this passage:
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,-
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,-
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.-
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door-
Only this and nothing more.”-
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500
This vocab word refers to the act of abstaining from all sexual intercourse; virginity.
What is chastity?
500
There are two answers to this question. The first is the dictionary definition of a given word, the second term is the cultural “vibe” we associate with that word.
What is denotation and connotation?
500
This heartbeat-like rhythm is the meter that Shakespeare wrote his verse in.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
500
Because of the author’s use of flashbacks, ‘Catch the Moon’ has this kind of story structure rather than a chronological structure.
What is nonlinear structure?
500
What is being personified in this passage:
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come.
Who is Time, the reaper.