Grammar
The fragment below needs this to become a complete sentence.
"Listens to the students’ opinions."
What is a subject?
“The moon hung like a silver coin in the sky.”
What is simile?
A grouped set of lines in a poem, similar to a paragraph in prose
What is a stanza?
This type of character does not show much change throughout a story's plot.
What is a static character?
This statement recognizes the Indigenous Peoples whose traditional territory a gathering or event takes place on.
What is a land acknowledgement?
This has hands and a face but cannot clap nor smile.
What is a clock?
This unexpectedly sinister word describes a group of crows.
What is a murder?
Name the sentence error as seen below:
"After the accident yesterday, Amy drove very carefully she vowed to obey the speed limit."
What is a run-on sentence?
“The tired floorboards groaned in protest.”
The voice that communicates the poem (but should not automatically be assumed to be the poet).
What is the speaker?
A character deciding whether to tell the truth or protect a friend is experiencing this type of conflict.
What is internal conflict?
(OR What is character vs. self?)
In First Peoples cultural spaces, these highly respected community members are recognized as keepers of traditional knowledge, history, and language.
Who are Elders?
This can be written with words and served in years.
What is a sentence?
The musical, West Side Story, is a modern-day adaptation of this Shakespearean play.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Name the sentence error as seen below:
"The company has never printed novels, textbooks are its primary publication."
What is a comma splice?
A fire station burns down while the firefighters are responding to another emergency.
What is situational irony?
Identify the rhyme scheme: light / day / night / away
What is ABAB?
A _______ is a character that contrasts with another character to emphasize their different qualities.
(ex: Woody and Buzz Lightyear; Hamlet and Laertes; Joy and Sadness; Iron Man and Captain America)
What is a foil?
Many Indigenous cultures across North America use name to refer to the continent, originating from a creation story about a giant creature carrying the land on its back.
Hint: 2 words
What is Turtle Island?
This begins with E, ends with E, and contains one letter.
What is an envelope?
This seven-letter English noun is a famous palindrome—meaning it reads the same forwards and backwards—and it names a small, light boat.
What is a kayak?
Choose the correct word from the parentheses to complete the following sentence:
"Neither the students nor the teacher (was / were) expecting this surprise."
What is was?
“The sharp lemon made her mouth pucker, followed by the lingering sweetness of honey.” Name the type of imagery.
What is gustatory?
When a sentence continues beyond the end of a poetic line without punctuation or a complete pause. See example below:
the back wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow lie
cinders
in which shine
the broken
pieces of a green
bottle
What is enjambment?
A ___-______ narrative structure presents events outside chronological order, often using flashbacks, flash-forwards, or shifts in time.
What is non-linear?
These are the three distinct groups of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.
Who are the First Nations, Metis, and Inuit?
This has a mouth but cannot eat; it runs constantly but has no legs.
What is a river?
This controversial punctuation mark appears before "and" or "or" in a list of three or more items. (Identify its name.)
Hint: two words
What is the Oxford comma?
"The students had almost finished their presentations when the bell rang."
The word "almost" in the above sentence is this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
Referring to someone’s weakness as their “Achilles’ heel” is an example of this device.
What is an allusion?
Stories, novels, and essays are usually written in prose, or ordinary language. Poems, song lyrics, and some plays are written in ________.
Hint: It begins with 'V'
What is verse?
This French-derived term names the final “unravelling” of a plot, when the consequences of the climax are revealed and remaining conflicts are settled.
What is the denouement?
Many Indigenous stories teach lessons by featuring this type of character (often a Raven or Coyote) which shape-shifts, breaks rules and causes mischief.
Hint: Its major trait is that it deceives others!
What is a Trickster?
Forward, I am too much for you to bear alone; backward, I am not. What am I?
What is a ton?
(ton → not)
This is the only number whose English name has its letters in alphabetical order.
What is forty?