Study Guide Questions (Games 5-8)

What is an adjective?

A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.

What is a superlative adjective? Give two examples.

A superlative adjective is used to describe an object's uppermost or lowermost quality. Examples: smallest, tallest.

What is the use of an adverb?

An adverb is used to describe or modify an object or verb.

What is an appositive? Give an example.

An appositive is used to clarify or explain another noun or phrase. Example: 'My wife, Hellen, is very kind.'

What is a gerund?

A noun form of a verb ending in -ing, such as playing, eating, sleeping.

What is a noun?

A noun is a person, place, or thing.

Define participle noun.

A word based on a verb that expresses a state of being, ending in -ing, -ed, -en, or -d.

Identify the participle noun in the sentence: 'Our parents found us walking the dog at midnight.'

Walking (modifies the word walk).

What are proper nouns?

Proper nouns are specific names of people, places, or things.

What is the difference between common and proper nouns?

Common nouns are nonspecific, while proper nouns refer to distinct specific things.

Identify a preposition object and its use in a sentence.

Example: 'He drove over the bridge.' (Over tells us he drove from one place to another.)

What is an indefinite pronoun? Give an example.

An indefinite pronoun does not specifically identify what it refers to. Example: 'someone.'

Identify the possessive pronoun in the sentence: 'Her favorite color is purple.'

Her.

Identify the conjugated verb in the following sentence: 'Mr. Gabel was smiling as he wiped the window sill.'

Smiling (is conjugated from the word smile).

What is a present perfect progressive tense?

A verb tense used to talk about something that started in the past and continues to the present time. Example: 'I have been reading Harry Potter for a month now.'

What does a compound sentence contain?

A compound sentence contains more than one subject or predicate.

What happens when you change the word 'angry' to 'anger'?

It goes from an adjective to a noun.

What is a double negative?

Emphasizing a negative rather than canceling out the negatives.

Identify the double negative in the following sentence: 'I ain't going nowhere.'

Ain't (I'm not) and nowhere.

Define analogy.

Two things compared together, usually to give an explanation.

What is a book?

A written or printed/typed work consisting of pages glued, sewn, or stapled together along one side, usually with two covers.

Define play.

A dramatic performance, coming from the Greek 'paizo,' meaning 'to act.'

What is a novel?

A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

Explain what an allegory is.

A book, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to have a secret meaning, usually political or moral.

Define autobiography.

A book about somebody’s life, written by that person.

Explain what a memoir is.

A historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources.

Define figurative language.

Figurative language is a form of speech that is meaningful but not actually true.

Identify five examples of figurative language.

Examples include allusion, simile, metaphor, idiom, onomatopoeia.

Define anagram and give an example.

An anagram is two words whose letters can be rearranged to form the other word, like 'saw' and 'was.'

Define euphemism and give an example.

A euphemism replaces harsh or vulgar words with softer terms. Example: died ➔ passed away.

Define homonym and give an example.

A homonym is two words that are spelled the same and sometimes pronounced the same. Example: well and well.

Define homophone and give an example.

A homophone is two or more words that sound the exact same but have very different meanings. Example: to, too, and two.

Define a common idiom and give an example.

An expression peculiar to a language, meaning can't be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements. Example: beating around the bush.

Define palindrome and give an example.

A palindrome is a word or phrase that reads the same backwards and forwards. Example: racecar.

Define personification and give an example.

Personification gives human-like attributes to non-human things. Example: 'the chair danced down the hall.'

Define onomatopoeia and give an example.

Onomatopoeia is a word that represents a sound. Example: 'the bee buzzed to the flower.'

Identify five Literary terms.

Examples include foreshadowing, analogy, alliteration, allusion, anthropomorphism.

Define character.

Character is the way a person speaks, thinks, affects others, what they do, and how they look.

Define foreshadowing and give an example.

Foreshadowing hints to the future. Example: 'I’m coming.'

Define suspense.

Suspense is the feeling of being excited or anxious about something that may happen.

Define poetry.

Poetry is a literary work intensifying the expression of feelings and ideas using distinctive style and rhythm.

Define an English sonnet.

An English sonnet is a rhyme pattern of three groups of four lines each and one group at the end.

Describe what a postal abbreviation is.

A postal abbreviation shortens the state name to fit onto the item being sent.

Identify the postal abbreviation for Arkansas.

AR.

Identify the postal abbreviation for Wisconsin.

WI.

What book series did Barbara Park write?

The Junie B. Jones series.

Who is the author of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe'?

C.S. Lewis.

Who wrote 'The Raven' and 'The Tell-Tale Heart'?

Edgar Allan Poe.

Who is the author of 'Animal Farm'?

George Orwell.

Who wrote the 'Tattered Tom' series?

Horatio Alger.

Who authored 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' series?

J.R.R. Tolkien.

Who wrote 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'?

Mark Twain.

Who is the author of 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'?

Robert Browning.

Who wrote 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s'?

Truman Capote.

Who created the characters Hansel and Gretel?

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

Who created the character Heidi?

Johanna Spyri.

Who created the character called an orc?

J.R.R. Tolkien.

Who created the character Robin Hood?

William Langland.

Who created the character Sherlock Holmes?

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Who created the character Tarzan?

Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Who created the character Tiger Lily?

Jodi Lynn Anderson.

Who wrote 'A Christmas Carol'?

Charles Dickens.

Who wrote 'Auld Lang Syne'?

Robert Burns.

Who wrote 'Letter on Thomas Jefferson'?

Thomas Jefferson.

Who authored 'Paradise Lost'?

John Milton.

Who wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'?

Jane Austen.

Who wrote 'The Call of the Wild'?

Jack London.

Who wrote 'The Communist Manifesto'?

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Who wrote 'The House that Jack Built'?

Lars Von Trier.

Who wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Who wrote 'Alice in Wonderland'?

Lewis Caroll.

Who wrote 'Gulliver's Travels'?

Jonathan Swift.

Who wrote 'Little Women'?

Louisa May Alcott.

What is mythology?

A collection of myths, especially belonging to a particular religious or cultural tradition.

What is Mercury in mythology?

The Roman god of shopkeepers, merchants, travelers, transporters of goods, thieves, and tricksters.

Who is Mercury in Greek mythology?

Hermes.

What is Mount Olympus?

The abode of the gods and the site of the throne of Zeus.

What is the antonym for the word 'appropriate'?

Inappropriate or unsuitable.

What is the antonym for the word 'delicate'?

Firm.

What is the antonym for the word 'grizzly'?

Immature, young, fresh, new, etc.

What is the antonym for the word 'muggy'?

Fresh, airy.

Define plagiarism.

Using other people's words without credit.

What do you call an American space traveler?

Astronaut.

What do you call a Russian space traveler?

Cosmonaut.

Identify the countries in the Northern Triangle.

Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador.

Who is the current American lawyer and diplomat serving as the 71st U.S. Secretary of State?

Anthony Blinken.

Who is the 45th former U.S. president and current president-elect?

Donald Trump.

Identify the 67th U.S. Secretary of State in the administration of Barack Obama.

Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Who is the 2024 presidential candidate representing the Democratic party?

Kamala Harris.

Name all living U.S. Presidents.

Joseph R. Biden Jr., Donald Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter.

What are the Navajo Code Talkers?

Navajo Native Americans who created a code based on the complex, unwritten Navajo language.

Who are the two surviving Navajo Code Talkers?

Peter MacDonald and Thomas H. Begay.

Who is the 25th current president of France?

Emmanuel Macron.

Who is the 66th president of Mexico since 2024?

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

Who is the Italian politician serving as Israel’s prime minister since 2022?

Benjamin Netanyahu.

What is HAMAS and what does it stand for?

HAMAS is the Islamic Resistance Movement, an armed resistance against Israel.

Define overtourism.

When too many visitors flock to the same place causing detrimental impacts on the environment, local communities, and visitor experience.

What term describes the situation when a particular person will be gone from office at the next election?

Tick tock.

What does COD stand for?

Cash on delivery.

What is the economic system where private actors own and control property?

Capitalism.