This is a possessive phrase that means "the tricks of a clown"
What is "A clown's tricks"?
100
The show "The Three Stooges" uses mainly this level of comedy.
What is "low level comedy"?
100
This is Montag's Call to Adventure.
What is "meeting Faber in the park"?
100
This is an obvious and intentional exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
200
This word means "Lifeless, unable to move or act"
What is "inert"?
200
This is the independent clause in this sentence: "Our planets revolve around the sun, not each other."
What is "Our planets revolve around the sun."
200
Clarisse was part of the old society where talking and thinking are encouraged. This is what others thought about it.
What is "she was considered anti-social"
200
This is the motif, in The Pearl, that often changes depending on characters' feelings.
What is "Songs"?
200
This word means "to become used to; to cause to become used to"
What is "habituate"?
300
This word means "a false notion or belief; an error in thinking"
What is "fallacy"?
300
The example, "Purdue offers many majors. Such as math, english, and science." showcases this type of error in writing.
What is a fragment
300
These are the elements of humor.
What are "caricatures, comic situations, comic wordplay"
300
This is what the rifle symbolizes to Kino in The Pearl.
What is "a better life for himself" and then "the end of life for his son."
300
The following quote from "Priscilla and the Wimps" is an example of this element of humor:
"Gang members don't need names. They've got group identity."
What is hyperbole?
400
This word means "clumsy, awkward; unwieldy"
What is "ungainly"?
400
This is the subject in the sentence, "Open the book and read the instructions."
What is "you"?
400
This is a short joke, a witty remark.
What is a one-liner?
400
Fahrenheit 451 is this type of genre.
What is a dystopia.
400
The following quote from The Pearl is an example of this technique: "There wasn't much left of it [the water] anyway, for every time it fell over an escarpment the thirsty air drank it . . . "
What is personification?
500
This word means "to make known, tell; to give, pass something on"
What is "impart"?
500
This is the completion of the analogy "Clumsy : Botch :: _______ : _______"
A. WICKED : INSINUATE
B. STRICT : PAMPER
D. CLEVER : ERADICATE
E. LAZY : SHIRK
What is "Lazy:Shirk"
500
These are three examples of transitions that reinforce an idea.
What are "indeed, in fact, as a matter of fact, to be sure, of course, in any event, by all means."
500
This is a thematic statement about materialism in The Pearl.
Answers may vary. Answers are accepted at Sr. Huda's discretion.
500
This word completes the sentence "After our bitter quarrel, my brother tried to ______________________ me by offering to lend me his bicycle."