Writing
Grammar
Famous Readings
Vocabulary
Figurative Language
100

A reason for or intent in writing.

What is the author's purpose?

100

Her bag of chips.

She knew.

The car went.


What are incomplete sentences?

100

A train stuck in the snow, a famous actress, a royal couple, a famous Belgian detective, and a gruesome murder.

What is "Murder on the Orient Express"?

100

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A place in which to live; a house or home; a forest or lake.

What is habitation?

100

The clouds are like giant fluffy pillows for the gods to have a massive pillow fight.

What is a simile?

200

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The subject of a piece of writing or of a talk.

What is theme?

200

I, them, your, himself.

What are pronouns?

200

I swear I am innocent, or am I? Am I in denial of madness or is my inner sight crystal clear? Louder. Louder! LOUDER!

What is "The Tell-Tale Heart"

200

The state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.

What is the weather?

200

Her long hair was a flowing golden river.

What is a metaphor?

300

The person in a novel, play, or movie.

What is a character?

300
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in a deep sleep

on a journey

at a distance

What are prepositional phrases?

300

"Nothing gold can stay," (Robert Frost)

What is "The Outsiders"

300

Great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an object.

What is zeal?

300

The alarm clock screams at me to wake up.

What is personification?

400

A one or two-sentence representation of what the author is writing about.

What is the main idea?

400

A sentence with more than one subject or predicate.

What is a compound sentence?

400

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world..."

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out..."

What is "The Diary of Anne Frank"?

400

The walk or behavior in a very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive way.

What is swagger?

400

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I died of embarrassment at the party last night.

What is hyperbole?

500

The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.

What is the plot?

500

i Get an Eye Twitch wHen reaDinG This.

What are capitalization errors?

500

"To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

What is "Night"?

500

The recovery from illness or exertion; recover or regain (something lost or taken).

What is recuperate?

500

It's time to bite the bullet.

What is an idiom?

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