What type of clause can stand alone as a complete thought?
What is an independent clause?
100
The most common type of rhyme in poetry. Here, rhyming words come at the ends of lines.
What is end rhyme?
100
Over winter break I traveled to the bahamas.
Identify the error in this sentence.
What is a capitalization error?
100
This type of essay tells a story about the writer.
What is a personal narrative?
100
Every sentence must have this at the end.
What is punctuation?
200
What are all of the coordinating conjunctions?
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
200
Billy borrowed Bob's baseball bat.
This is an example of what poetic device?
What is alliteration?
200
When is an appropriate time to use a semicolon?
When separating two independent clauses?
200
This type of essay is informative.
What is an expository essay?
200
Identify the prepositional phrase in this sentence.
Summer begins on Friday.
What is on Friday?
300
What elements compose a complex sentence?
What is a subordinate clause and an independent clause?
300
What is the theme of Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay?"
What is change in life/nature?
300
How is a prepositional phrase different than a subordinate clause?
A prepositional phrase lacks a subject and a verb. A subordinate clause has a subject and a verb even though it is an incomplete thought.
300
Name three steps of the research process.
Source cards, note cards, outlining, research paper.
300
What is a limerick?
What is a humorous poem that follows a specific rhyme scheme?
400
A group of words without a subject and a verb.
What is a phrase?
400
Which poet wrote several poems based on the theme of dreams?
Who is Langston Hughes?
400
In 1954 William Golding wrote a book entitled Lord of the Flies about a group of English school boys stranded without adults on a desert island.
Identify 1 error in this sentence.
The title must be underlined.
400
Name one strategy used to edit your essays.
What is ratiocination (removing be verbs) or RADaR.
400
What is the difference between:
there
their
they're
there: location
their: possession
they're: they are
500
Identify what type of sentence this is:
Before dinner, I am going to make my bed, walk the dog, and do my homework.
What is a simple sentence?
500
This an example of what poetic device:
is a diamond blind in the black belly of coal
- Lucille Clifton, “the earth is a living thing”
What is assonance?
500
Hans holzer, a famous paranormal investigator, has written a number of books on ghosts.
Identify the error in this sentence.
Holzer must be capitalized.
500
What should you have between sentences, paragraphs, and/or, ideas?
Examples are: Although, therefore, and however
What are transition words?
500
What is the definition of personification?
What is giving human like qualities to non-living things?