Grammar
What is the name of a word that describes/modifies a noun?
An adjective
What is the most common letter in the english language?
E
Finish the line!
Clement Clarke Moore wrote: "Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring..."
...not even a mouse¨
Innate
Present at birth but not necessarily inherited
¨ I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings ¨ is a famous book written by which female African-American poet?
Maya Angelou
Which part of speech can be used in place of a noun or proper noun?
A pronoun
The word alphabet comes from which two greek words?
Alpha and beta
What is a stanza?
A type of paragraph in poetry
Aberration
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Neal Shusterman wrote which popular young adult series?
The Unwind series
What are words like ¨pop¨ ¨bang¨ and ¨boom¨ called?
Onomatopoeia
What are the only two words in English (in current use) that end in -gry?
Angry and hungry
The Raven is a poem written by which famous american author?
Edgar Allen Poe
Insatiable
Impossible to appease, fulfill, or gratify
Which famous former slave taught himself to read and ended up writing several books of his own?
Frederick Douglass
What is the article in this sentence? Moriah is the vice president.
The
What is the plural form of ox?
Oxen
Dylan Thomas’s “Do not go gentle into that good night” starts with the lines “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day”. What is the next line?
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Ubiquitous
Being present everywhere at once
Name a book written by an African-American author that has been turned into a movie.
The Hate U Give, Everything Everything, The Sun is Also a Star, etc.
We sometimes use three dots to indicate there is more to a sentence. What are these three dots called?
An ellipses
The dot over the letter i is called what?
A tittle
Which poem by Robert Frost begins with the line ¨Two roads diverged in a yellow wood¨?
The Road not Taken
Histrionic
Overly dramatic or emotional
Name five black authors.
Maya Angelou, Frederick Douglas, Neal Shusterman, Nicola Yoon, Kwame Alexander, Angie Thomas, Jacqueline Woodson, etc.