Name That Literary Device
Punctuation & Common Errors in Writing
Parts of a Short Story
MLA Formatting
Current Events
100
Identify the literary device used in the following example: In the short story "Initiation", the swallows represent conformity and the heather birds represent independence.
What is symbolism?
100
This piece of punctuation is used to create a pause or separate items in a list.
What is a comma?
100
This was the most prevalent technique used to create satire in the short story entitled "X" by Lois Gould.
What is exaggeration?
100
What is the order of the information that appears in the page 1 left-side header?
Your name, teacher's name, course code and date.
100
What famous performer shocked fans when he threw up on stage this past weekend?
Justin Bieber
200
Identify the literary device used in the following example: Friar Lawrence warns Romeo that "These violent delights have violent ends."
What is foreshadowing?
200
What is the proper English term for brackets (like this)?
Parentheses
200
This was the point of view or method of narration used to tell the short short story "The Choice".
What is first person narration?
200
How should the names of longer works such as novels or movies be treated in an MLA-formatted paper?
Written in italics.
200
It was announced this week that this creator of Family Guy and American Dad will host this year's Academy Awards (Oscars).
Seth MacFarlane
300
In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caufield tells the reader ""I have to have this operation. It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."
What is understatement?
300
What two pieces of punctuation are required in the following sentence: I wanted to go to the mall on Friday however it was closed for Easter weekend.
A semicolon and a comma: "I wanted to go to the mall on Friday; however, it was closed for Easter weekend."
300
In the story "Initiation", does the reader learn more about the protagonist through direct or indirect characterization?
Indirect - revealing information through the character's thoughts, words, actions, etc.
300
Explain how to format a quote that is four essay lines or longer.
Start quote on a new line, indent the entire quote (press tab once), end the quote with a period and provide the citation AFTER the period.
300
What MTV show will air its final 2-hour season premiere on Thursday night?
Jersey Shore
400
Identify the literary device used in the following quote: "He tells lies that would impress Pinocchio!"
What is allusion?
400
Place commas in the following sentence: Sarah who is dating the captain of the football team is trying to get a hockey scholarship.
"Sarah, who is dating the captain of the football team, is trying to get a hockey scholarship." If you took out the info surrounded by commas, the sentence would still make perfect sense.
400
What is the most prevalent form of conflict X faces in Lois Gould's short story?
person vs. society
400
Explain how a Works Cited page should be spaced.
Single space information related to the same source; double space in between sources.
400
What highly anticipated product was released this month, with new changes such as a larger surface area and relocated headphone jack?
The iPhone 5.
500
In Lord of the Flies, Jack's character represents the inherent evil and corruptibility of man, while Ralph represents order and goodness. What is the term for characters who represent such opposing values?
Foil
500
Where should the question mark be placed in the following sentence: Who just yelled "Shut up"
Who just yelled "Shut up"? (Shut up is not a question; therefore, the question mark should not go inside the quotation marks)
500
Describe the setting of the short story "Walk Well, My Brother". Include all necessary parts of setting.
Time - 1950's; Setting - Alaska/Yukon border; Circumstance - Lavery has been working as a delivery pilot since the war ended
500
Explain how dialogue should be punctuated inside a quotation.
Quoted words a character says should be put in single quotes, like this: " Konala told Charlie, 'Walk well, my brother.' "
500
Members of the Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace announced this week that they are opening what kind of business in Toronto?
A gym.
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