This punctuation mark introduces a quotation, joins run-on sentences when the second half explains the first half, and occasionally sets off a list.
What is a colon.
100
This is complete sentence.
What is an independent clause.
100
This character's death is described in detail in the short story, "How to Tell a True War Story."
Who is Curt Lemon.
100
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile.
100
These are the three parts of an essay.
What are the introduction, body, and conclusion.
200
These two punctuation marks are kept outside of quotation marks.
What are colons and semicolons.
200
These are the two ways to fix a sentence fragment.
What are attach the fragment to a nearby sentence or rewrite the fragment as a complete sentence.
200
This phrase is repeated by one of the speakers in the Robert Frost poem, "Mending Wall."
What is "Good fences make good neighbors."
200
This is an example of a metaphor.
What is...up to you!
200
Paragraphs should be no less than this length.
What is three sentences.
300
This punctuation mark is always seen in pairs and is used to insert clarifying information inside a quotation.
What is the bracket.
300
These are the four types of sentences.
What are simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences, and complex-compound sentences.
300
This is what Jonathan Safran Foer suggests the following symbol stands for: ~.
What is a "pedal point," a symbol shown before a thought that dissolves into a suggestive silence.
300
Depressing, introspective, and fearful of aging.
What is the tone of Billy Collins' poem, "On Turning Ten."
300
Give three examples of ways to "hook your reader" in an introduction.
What are offering a startling statistic or unusual fact, a vivid example, a description or image, a paradoxical statement, a quotation or bit of dialogue, a question, an analogy, or an anecdote.
400
These are the two uses of semicolons.
What are 1) between independent clauses without the use of the words ("and," "or," "but," or "yet") and 2) in a series or list with internal punctuation.
400
This phrase may never start a sentence or be followed by a comma.
What is "such as."
400
What is the name of the reverend's name in "The River" and what does it signify?
What is Bevel Summers.
400
Ideology is defined as this.
What is "the body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture" or "the set of doctrines or beliefs that form that basis of political, economic, or other system."
400
The following is this type of run-on sentence: The sun is high, put on some sunblock.
What is a comma splice.
500
This is where the question mark should be placed in the following sentence:
Stacy's mother asked, "Do you need any money for the train"
What is inside the quotation marks.
500
What is the missing word in the following sentence?
My brother as well as my father _____ snowshoes.
What is "has."
500
In the short story "Teddy," the main character first describes his experience with God in this way.
What is he was watching his sister "pouring God into God."
500
The tale of Lenny Abramov and his travel back to the United States is from this book and is an example of this type of story.
What is Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story, a dystopic novel.
500
Name three types of paragraph patterns.
What are examples, narration, description, process, comparison and contract, analogy, cause and effect, classification and division, or definition.