Conventionally "good" and "evil" characters that are easy to recognize and are repeated in many of these stories.
What are characters in fairy tales?
100
The evil witch plotting to eat Hansel and Gretel.
What is a sentence fragment?
100
The most important sentence in an essay
What is a thesis?
100
An innocent female character grows up -- fast.
What is "Hansel and Gretel"?
100
Teaches a lesson.
What is a fable?
200
A wise old character who saves all the forest animals through an ingenious scheme.
Who is the Clever Rabbit?
200
Rapunzel grows up, she is imprisoned in a tower.
What is a comma splice error?
200
The first sentence in each paragraph usually.
What is a topic sentence?
200
A story with scary or cruel events, but that end happily ever after.
What are fairy tales?
300
Left unprotected by their father.
Who are Hansel and Gretel?
300
Illustrating that readers can always expect a happy ending.
What is a sentnce fragment?
300
Each idea asserted must have this.
What is support?
300
End with wealth and/or marriage to a prince.
What are fairy tales?
300
Explain why the world is the way it is -- that is, the world's origins.
What are myths.
400
These characters are always cruel and exploitive
What are stepmothers?
400
Two words that sound the same, but this one always shows possession, that is that something "belongs" to two or more people.
What is "THEIR"?
400
A preview of the parts of your papers in the order they appear AND its location in the essay.
What is the "map" found in the introduction?
400
No matter what happens, the father asks his son, "What makes you so sure this isn't a blessing?"
What is "The Lost Horse"?
400
Not exactly didactic, but do present humans confronting common problems and issues.
What are folktales?
500
Two human characters that become examples of the importance of following community traditions.
Who are Deer Hunter and White Corn Maiden?
500
One of the best ways to check whether your puncutation and grammar is correct.
What is proofreading -- especially by reading your work out loud?
500
Important words or their synonyms that help unify the paper from beginning to end and throughout each paragraph.
What are key terms?
500
A story where a father stabs his own daughter, causing her death and violating our expectations that parents will always love and protect their children.
What is "Sedna"?
500
Stories where younger characters disobey the "rules" of their society.