Literature
What is the main character called, formally?
A protagonist
What is the formal name for a person, place, or thing in a sentence?
A noun
This famous teen-lit series features a werewolf.
What is "Twilight"?
Which is the correct spelling: Tuseday, Tusday, Tuesday, or Teusday?
Tuesday
What is the name of this figure of speech: The waves crashed on the shore with a sound like a big drum.
A simile (sim ill ee)
What is the word for signalling something that will happen later in the story?
Foreshadowing
What punctuation marks the beginning of a sentence, and which one marks the end?
A capital letter and a period.
Who wrote the "Goosebumps" books?
RL Stine
Which is the correct spelling? Forty, fourty, fordy, fourdy
Forty.
A metaphor describes one kind of thing as another, as in Life is a road with many turn and stops, and we know where it ends, but never how we will get there.
Generally, the thing described (life) is an __________ and the description is a _________ that makes it easier to understand.
Abstraction (life)
described with a Concrete image that is more familiar (a road)
What defines a first person narrator?
They are a character in the story.
What is a phrase? A group of words that serve ...
one (grammatical) function in a sentence.
Who wrote Hamlet, Othello, MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, and 2 dozen more plays (the only play(s) that most teenagers have ever read)?
Shakespeare
What do we call this kind of word, one made up of two bases? cowboy
For extra points, which word is the thing, and which word is the modifier (adjective)?
a compound word
boy is the thing (it's a boy, not a cow);
cow is the modifier
A word that represents a sound, like bowwow, crash, hum, etc. is called...
onomatopoeia
This line contains what common form of literary or poetic technique: the bubble burst like a balloon
Alliteration
What is the name OR function of this phrase?
My teacher, a wonderful man who helps us develop into adults, ....
An appositive, which renames or describes the noun before it.
What well-known books (and movies) feature a dystopian world where people have to choose a champion to fight to the death?
The Hunger Games series
What is the base in this word? prevention
vent
Exaggerating for the sake of effect, such as his hands were so big shaking hands was like putting your hand into a catcher's mitt.
Hyperbole (hi per bowl EE)
A sonnet
The "center" or "nucleus" of a spelling, such as "act" in the word "reaction" is called a...
base.
What comic book and movie villain, played most famously by Heath Ledger, was the title character in the best Batman movie ever?
The Joker
What are the three spelling rules that change one letter at the end of the base as?
bite + ing => biting
bit + en => bitten
itsy bitsy + er => itsy bitsier
drop silent -e rule
1+1+1 doubling rule
y change to an i rule
This figure of speech substitutes a thing associated with the other thing, as in "I wear the pants in the family," where "pants" are closely associated with the traditional head of the family, a man.
Metonymy