Words
Poetry
Literary
MISC
MISC
100
Name the connotation of the italicized word
Her ambitious spirit led her to climb the highest mountains.
Positive
100
Down on the roof so brown
Down and brown are an example of....
Internal rhyme
100
Now kneel, noble knight, on your knobby knees.
This is an example of?
Alliteration
100
Which synonym most closely matches the meaning of the word suffice?
Satisfy
100
What type of text structure is this?
Compare and Contrast
200
How would you describe the tone of the author when they write, "Obviously, no one cared to clean up the mess."?
Annoyed or bothered
200
What type of poem is this?
The winds that blow -
ask them, which leaf on the tree
will be next to go.
-Kyoshi Takayama
Haiku
200
You don’t have to be Albert Einstein to understand poetry.
This is an example of an...
Allusion
200
Your friend tells you a secret in absolute confidence. You don't really mean to, but you tell another friend. Soon the whole school seems to know what your friend's secret is. Your friend is really mad at you. Your friend confronts you and both get mad and start yelling at each other. Now you are both mad. What kind of conflict is this?
Man vs Man
200
During a team meeting, an employee suggests a new project management tool. Another employee dismisses the idea by saying, “We shouldn’t consider it because John suggested it, and he’s always coming up with impractical ideas.” This is what type of logical fallacy?
Ad hominem
300
Something subterranean would be found
Under the earth
300
Also known a “vowel rhyme,” is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry.
Assonance
300
"Then leaf subsides to leaf/ So Eden sank to grief" (Frost 5-6).
What is the allusion and what are they alluding to?
Eden
Garden of Eden from the story of Adam and Eve from the Bible
300
What text structure would be most effective for organizing an essay on how WW2 began?
Chronological
300
The author gives hints about what will happen later in the novel.
Foreshadowing
400
A monologue is literally defined as...
One person speaking
400
The name given to poetry that doesn’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme. It is the opposite of formal verse poetry, that uses both a strict meter and rhyme scheme.
Free Verse
400
Oxy's slogan "Tough on stains. Gentle on skin." is an example of what?
Antithesis
400
Romeo arrives at the Capulet family tomb to find his love, Juliet supposedly dead. However, the audience knows that Juliet is not dead; she merely took a potion to make it look like she died for her motives. When the audience of a story knows more than the characters involved, what type of irony is employed?
Dramatic
400
What would be the most unreliable source while researching?
A blog
500
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone: What the author is trying to convey or their opinion about something
Mood: What the reader feels
500
A unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is also called a foot. Each foot has a certain number of syllables in it, usually two or three syllables.
Meter
500
You work all afternoon cooking a fancy dinner for your boyfriend. When he takes his first bite, he spits it out into his napkin without you seeing and says to you, "Oh Sweetie, this is wonderful!"
What is this an example of?
Verbal irony
500
An autobiography on Benjamin Franklin would be an example of a...
Primary source
500
Ernest Cline's purpose behind Ready Player One was to...
Entertain