kb Literature 2013 #8

Question 1

Tammy and Jada grew tired during the long concert.

What is the predicate adjective?

Answer 1

tired

Question 2

Warrant walks too quickly.

What part of speech is “too”?

Answer 2

adverb

Question 3

Helen has a yearly membership at the local health club.

What part of speech is “yearly”?

Answer 3

adjective

Question 4

They sang beautifully during the entire winter concert.

What part of speech is “beautifully”?

Answer 4

adverb

Question 5

Finish this analogy: Walk is to legs as chew is to ___.

Answer 5

mouth

Question 6

Finish this analogy: Chicago is to Illinois as Denver is to __.

Answer 6

Colorado

Question 7

Finish this analogy: March is to spring as December is to __.

Answer 7

winter

Question 8

Finish this poem by Edward Lear.
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared! --
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
Have \_\_.

Answer 8

all built their nests in my beard

Question 9

There was an old man of Blackheath,
Who sat on his set of false teeth.
Said he with a start,
“Oh, Lord, bless my heart!
I've bitten myself underneath!"
What do we call a 5 line poem like the one above?

Answer 9

limerick

Question 10

Complete this line of poetry.

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a ___.

Answer 10

tree

Question 11

Look at this line from Langston Hughes’s poem “Dreams.”

Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. What kind of literary comparison is used?

Answer 11

metaphor

Question 12

Complete this saying: Don’t make a mountain out of ___.

Answer 12

molehill

Question 13

What shepherd killed the giant Goliath in the “Bible”?

Answer 13

David

Question 14

What are words that have the same spelling or pronunciation but do not necessarily mean the same thing?

Answer 14

homonyms