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100
This figure of speech uses gross exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
100
This author is best known for "The Lengend of Sleepy Hollow?
Who is Washington Irving ?
100
The word Indian came from this mistaken belief of Christopher Columbus.
What is discovering a new route to India?
100
This elite branch of the US military killed Osama Bin Laden.
Who are the navy seals?
100
This lovely lady recently married PRINCE William.
Who is Kate Middleton?
200
When giving inanimate objects human-like qualities you are using this figure of speech.
What is personification?
200
He is remembered as a writer of historical fiction and the frontier.
Who is James Fenimore Cooper?
200
This form of transportation had a terrible effect on the native Americans.
What is the railroad?
200
This person has been pestered to provide his birth certificate.
Who is President Obama?
200
She was the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry.
Who is Princess Diana?
300
This figure of speech recreates the sound that words make.
What is onomatopaia?
300
This new type of art was inspired by the appreciation of the American landscape, national pride and an American river.
What is The Hudson River School?
300
The Trail of Tears was a march that was forced on native Americans to this state.
What is Oklahoma?
300
Major flooding has caused devastation for people living near this major American River.
What is the Mississippi?
300
This 8 week old puppy has fallen in love with PVS.
Who is Lucy?
400
When using this order of writing one refers to the space involved.
What is spatial?
400
This popular style of architecture in America was inspired by these two ancient cultures.
What are Greece and Rome?
400
This American general was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who George Armstrong Custer?
400
The dictator leader of this country refuses, along with his sons, to give up power.
What is Libya?
400
This 8th grader celebrated his 14 birthday on May12,2011.
Who is Matthew Paton?
500
When writing about a contradiction in terms, such as jumbo shrimp, you are using this figure of speech.
What is an oxymoron?
500
Jackson rewarded some of his supporters using this system.
What is the spoils system?
500
This man was the leader of the Seminole Nation.
Who is Osceola?
500
This billionaire is thinking about running for president in 2012.
What is Donald Trump?
500
This restaurant was a hit and a great place to eat hamburgers, always well done.
What is Five Guys?