Grammar/
reading skills
Literary terms
Shakespeare
Writing
Research
100
Using context clues to make an educated analysis of a reading passage.
What is an inference?
100
When the author gives you clues about an event that will take place later.
What is foreshadowing?
100
A character who has heroic qualities, but meets with an untimely death or catastrophe.
What is a tragic hero?
100
The portion of the introduction that tells the reader the purpose of the essay.
What is the thesis statement?
100
The correct format for a research paper, which includes 12 point font, double-spacing, and proper pager headers and numbers.
What is MLA?
200
The main purpose of a reading passage.
What is main idea?
200
First person
What is the point of view in which the narration is done by the main character?
200
The trait that brings the tragic hero to his downfall.
What is a tragic flaw?
200
The portion of the introduction that draws the reader into the topic.
What is The attention getter?
200
.gov, .org, .edu
What are credible sources?
300
However, Futhermore, Last, Incidentally...
What are transitions?
300
The tree whispers in the night.
What is personification?
300
In a Shakespearean play, when an actor makes a side comment to the audience that the other actors can not "hear".
What is an aside?
300
According to The Holocaust Museum, "Jews were required to turn over all valuables, including jewels, coins, and silver" (Smith 4).
What is An internal citation?
300
A word for word citation taken from one of your sources?
What is a direct quote?
400
Sitting on the ground.
What is a sentence fragment?
400
The reader knows more than the characters.
What is dramatic irony?
400
The 3 rhetorical strategies used in Marc Antony's famous speech; they show credibility, logic and emotion.
What are Ethos, logos, pathos?
400
The first sentence of the body paragraph that tells the reader the main purpose of the paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
400
The last page of a research paper which includes the sources used in the research, along with all applicable information.
What is A works cited page?
500
Plural noun needs a plural verb; singular noun needs a singular verb.
What is subject-verb agreement?
500
They were ravenous wolves at the dinner table.
What is metaphor?
500
Repetition, parallelism, and ethos, logos and pathos.
What are rhetorical devices?
500
The closing sentence or sentences that tie an essay up.
What is the clincher?
500
The 2 correct ways to include internal citations in a research paper.
What are direct quite and paraphrasing?
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