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What is a complex sentence?
100
The time, place, and conditions of a story.
What is setting?
100
A person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
100
A book of maps.
What is an atlas?
100
A passage that lists one or more causes and effects
What is cause/effect
200
I found the lost baseball underneath the rose bush at the back of the yard.
What is a simple sentence?
200
The message about life and the world that the author wants you to learn from the story.
What is theme?
200
A noun or pronoun that names the receiver of the verb's action.
What is a direct object?
200
A set of books or CD-ROMs that give information on a variety of subjects and is listed in alphabetical order.
What is an encyclopedia?
200
Passages that use first, next, last, then, etc.
What is chronological order?
300
No one knew how long the window had been open in the rainstorm.
What is a simple sentence?
300
The author's attitude toward a subject which comes through in his/her writing.
What is tone?
300
A verb that does not have a direct object.
What is an intransitive verb?
300
The best source on a variety of information including weather patterns, farming information, life expectancy, etc.
What is an almanac?
300
The structure of a passage that tells similiarities and differences
What is compare/contrast?
400
I thought I knew the way, but we must have taken a wrong turn somewhere.
What is a compound sentence?
400
The repetition of the initial consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
400
Pronouns such as everybody, anybody, nobody, anyone, etc.
What are indefinite pronouns?
400
A listing of synonyms and antonyms
What is a thesaurus?
400
The car would not start. Jeff had forgotten to put gas in the car. That was the problem. He walked to the gas station to fill up a can to with gasoline in order to get his car going again.
What is problem/solution?
500
A sentence with at least two independent clauses, and one dependent clause.
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
A statement of exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
500
Conjunctions such as either/or, neither/not, but/also, etc.
What are correlative conjunctions?
500
The term used for copying someone else's work and taking the credit yourself.
What is plagirism?
500
Text structure that uses words like, as a result, consequently, therefore, etc.