Vocab
Vehemently
Where does the comma go?
I love my sweet playful dog.
I love my sweet, playful dog.
Protagonist in the play
John Proctor
The narrator of The Great Gatsby
Nick Carraway
First man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
To change constantly
Fix the sentence:
He played basketball with his friends he is now a better player.
He played basketball with his friends; he is now a better player.
"Affliction" Betty Parris and Ruth Putnam suffer from at the beginning of the play
How Nick and Daisy are related
Second cousins
Egg-laying mammal has a paddle-shaped tail, a sleek body covered in dense fur, a wide, flat bill, and big webbed feet?
Platypus
Rancor
Hatred; bitter ill-will
a piece of a sentence that is not necessary to the meaning of a sentence, but adds meaning to a sentence; set off by commas
nonrestrictive clause
First accused of witchcraft
Tituba
Tom's mistress
Myrtle Wilson
Largest country in the world
Russia
Laden
Heavily loaded; weighed down
Where does a semicolon go in a sentence?
Between two independent clauses
Reason John Proctor refused to confess
He wanted to keep his name for his boys
Tom and Daisy live in _______, while Nick and Gatsby live in _______
East Egg
West Egg
Name of a baby owl
Owlet
Forlorn
Sad and lonely
Where does the semicolon go?
She went to the beach she was tired when she came home.
She went to the beach; she was tired when she went home.
American parallel Arthur Miller wrote the play about (as an allegory)
The Red Scare
Gatsby knocks a _______ off of Nick's mantle and breaks it when Daisy comes for tea
Clock
Dot over a lowercase I is called a...
Tittle