a procedure carried out to test a hypothesis
an experiment
The things characters say in a play or movie
What is dialogue?
A group of sentences (often about 3-8) about one topic
What is a paragraph?
Two things every sentence needs
What are a subject and a verb?
The four characters of Skeleton Crew
Who are Faye, Dez, Shanita, and Reggie?
a testable guess or explanation for something that happens
A person in a work of fiction
What is a character?
The exact words of a piece of writing or speech, put in marks like this " "
What is a quote or quotation?
The FANBOYS conjunctions
What are For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So?
The illness that Faye suffered from
What is breast cancer?
Something you notice with the five senses
What is an observation?
A problem in a piece of fiction - for example, when two characters want different things, or a character wants something they can't have
What is a conflict?
A piece of writing designed to make people think or act a certain way
What is an argument?
A grammatical mistake when two or more sentences are joined together without punctuation to separate them
What is a run on?
The reason Faye is sleeping at the plant
What is she couldn't keep up with her house payments?
The passing on of traits and characteristics from one generation to another
What is heredity?
The change in characters over time
What is character development?
The thing a piece of writing is generally about
What is a topic?
A grammar mistake when a sentence lacks a subject and/or verb
What is a fragment?
The number of Acts in the play Skeleton Crew
What is two?
Darwin's idea that organisms that are well-suited to their environment are more likely to survive and have offspring
What is natural selection?
The events of a piece of fiction
What is a plot?
Something good evidence should be
What is trustworthy, relevant, adequate?
The three punctuation marks that can end a sentence
What are Period (.) Question mark (?) Exclamation point (!)
What Shanita threw at a Mack truck
What is a chocolate Frosty from Wendys?