Simple Subjects
What is the simple subject of this sentence?
The speeding hotrod crashed into a telephone pole.
hotrod
What is the standard MLA font size?
What is 12?
What are the forms of the verb "to be"?
is, are, was, were, am, be, being, been
"Light the first page, light the second page. Each becomes a black butterfly. Beautiful, eh? Light the third page from the second and so on, chainsmoking, chapter by chapter, all the silly things the words mean, all the false promises, all the second-hand notions and time-worn philosophies.’”
—Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
What is a metaphor?
Correct or Incorrect? If incorrect, why?
Even though he had the better arguments and was by far the more powerful speaker.
Incorrect - fragment
What is the simple subject of this sentence?
Neither of these boys wants to try a piece of pineapple pizza.
What is neither?
What is the standard line spacing in MLA format?
What is double space?
The following is an example of which figurative language device?
"Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken words froze solid afore they could be heard. People had to wait until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before."
Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox
Hyperbole
"And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.”
‘Paul Revere’s Ride’ - Longfellow
What is personification?
Correct or Incorrect? If incorrect, why?
While the flock of pigeons, pecking at sandwich crumbs and strutting along the sidewalk as if to say to passersby, "We own the block," crossed into the territory of our rose garden.
Incorrect - fragment
What is the simple subject of this sentence?
My dog, along with her seven puppies, has chewed all of the stuffing out of the sofa cushions.
What is dog?
How many spaces do you leave after a period?
What is 1?
What type of essay is this?
A piece of academic writing where you use logic and reason to show that your point of view is more legitimate than any other - you must expose clear arguments and support them by convincing facts and logical reasons
Persuasive
“Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.”
―Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception, Maggie Stiefvater
What is a metaphor?
Correct or incorrect? If incorrect, why?
The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.
Correct
What is the simple subject of this sentence?
Don’t feed the animals in that cage.
What is you?
How many line spaces are there between the title and the first line of your essay?
What is 2 (one double space)?
What type of essay is this?
an academic assignment that examines and evaluates a work of literature or a given aspect of a specific literary piece
literary analysis
I’ve got a nice place here,” he said, his eyes flashing about restlessly.
Turning me around by one arm, he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep, pungent roses, and a snub-nosed motor-boat that bumped the tide offshore.
(The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
What is understatement?
Correct or incorrect? If incorrect, why?
My favorite Mediterranean spread is hummus, it is very garlicky.
Incorrect - Run-On sentence.
What is the simple subject of this sentence?
Knowing that millions of people around the world would be watching in person and on television and expecting great things from him — at least one more gold medal for America, if not another world record — during this, his fourth and surely his last appearance in the World Olympics, and realizing that his legs could no longer carry him down the runway with the same blazing speed and confidence in making a huge, eye-popping leap that they were capable of a few years ago when he set world records in the 100-meter dash and in the 400-meter relay and won a silver medal in the long jump, the renowned sprinter and track-and-field personality Carl Lewis, who had known pressure from fans and media before but never, even as a professional runner, this kind of pressure, made only a few appearances in races during the few months before the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, partly because he was afraid of raising expectations even higher, and partly because he did not want to be distracted by interviews and adoring fans who would follow him into stores and restaurants demanding autographs and photo-opportunities, but mostly because he wanted to conserve his energies and concentrate, like a martial arts expert, on the job at hand: winning his favorite competition, the long jump, and bringing home another Gold Medal for the United States, the most fitting conclusion to his brilliant career in track and field.
What is Carl Lewis?
Sources on the Works Cited page are arranged in what order?
What is alphabetical?
Active or Passive Voice?
Every night, the office is vacuumed and dusted by the cleaning crew.
Passive
He murmured the words, “I’m sorry,” but she didn’t think he was sincere.
What is onomatopoeia?
All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.
Correct!