Literature

Front 1

A common_____ is "A bird in the hands is worth two in the bush.

Back 1

adage

Front 2

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is a sentence containing_____.

Back 2

alliteration

Front 3

The politician's use of the phrase "manifest destiny" was an ______ to a U.S. political philosophy of the 1840s.

Back 3

allusion

Front 4

The tests for the literature course included an _______ of American short stories.

Back 4

anthology

Front 5

The Iliad is an ancient Greek ______ about the fall of Troy.

Back 5

epic

Front 6

I pointed out to dad that he was using ______ when he said "I've told you a million times to clean your room."

Back 6

hyperbole

Front 7

Whenever we see a sad movie, my cousin gets ______ and sobs uncontrollably.

Back 7

melodramatic

Front 8

The author ______ the house when she decribed its windows as "eyes keeping careful watch over the neighborhood."

Back 8

personify

Front 9

Author Samuel Clemens published his stories under the ______ "Mark Twain."

Back 9

pseudonym

Front 10

The novel was ______ in six issues of the magazine.

Back 10

serialized