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100

This U.S. state is known as the Natural State. 

What is Arkansas?

100

Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist of this dystopian trilogy.

What is The Hunger Games?

100

This term means the time and place of a story.

What is setting?

100

Choose the correctly punctuated sentence

A) Its raining.

B) It's raining.

What is B?

100

This term is the central idea or underlying message that a writer explores in a work 

What is theme?

200

This planet is closest to the sun. 

What is Mercury?

200

This book by Angie Thomas begins when Starr witnesses her friend Khalil get shot by the police. 

What is The Hate U Give?

200

Identify the point of view: "I walked into the room and saw him standing there."

What is first person?

200

Combine these two sentences with a semicolon: 

She studied hard. She passed the test. 

What is "She studied hard; she passed the test."?

200

This literary device gives human characteristics to non-human objects. 

What is personification?

300

This number is the Roman numeral "L".

What is 50?

300

The character "Four" appears in this dystopian trilogy.

What is Divergent?

300

This paragraph in an argumentative essay addresses the opposing viewpoint. 

What is the counterclaim/counterargument?

300

Name one transition word used in argumentative writing.

What is "however," "therefore," "in contrast," etc?

300

Explain what it means to make an inference while reading literature. 

What is drawing a conclusion based on textual evidence and reasoning? 

400

This 14-line poem format is often written in iambic pentameter.

What is a sonnet?

400

This author of The Fault in Our Stars is also known for Looking for Alaska.

Who is John Green.

400

Thinking of where the source comes from and by whom it was written is a way of determining what?

What is a credible source? 

400

This is the term for a comparison using "like" or "as."

What is a simile?

400

What strategy can one use to help analyze and understand a work of literature?

What is annotation/annotate?

500

This punctuation mark is used to connect two independent clauses without a conjunction.

What is a semicolon?

500

This is the name of the wizarding school Harry Potter attends.

What is Hogwarts?

500

In fiction, authors develop a theme, while in nonfiction, they focus on the ___ ____, a similar concept. 

What is the main idea? 

500

Identify the error in this sentence: 

Each of the students have their homework. 

What is subject-verb agreement: "has" instead of "have"?

500

What does the annotation strategy TPCASTT stand for?

What is 

Title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title (again), and theme. 

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