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100

This is the wordclass of the word in italics in the following sentence: The HTX students laughed at the English teacher.

What is a verb?

100

This is the name of Charlie's girlfriend in the novel

What is Mary?

100

This is the English name of the comic strip Steen og Stoffer

What is Calvin and Hobbes?

100

This is the name of the genre, where we analyse 'the gutter, the frames, the panels'

What are graphic novels/comic strips?

100

This is something that the kids in Captain Fantastic are not allowed to use when talking

What are 'non-words'?

200

This is the wordclass of the word in italics in the following sentence: the teacher is clever

What is an adjective?

200

This is what we, in literary terms, call the main character of a novel

What is a protagonist?

200

This was the main topic of the spoken word poem by Shane Koyczan

What is "bullying"?

200

These are genres that we analyse in English class (name at least three)

what are poetry, novels, short stories, movies, graphic novels/comics, speeches, news segments, articles...?

200

These are two contrasting words that we have used a lot to describe the theme of the course on growing up

What is 'innocence vs. experience'?

300

This is the wordclass of the word in italics in the following sentence: 

During the fight, the English teacher was moving toward the table with knives

What is a preposition?

300

This is the word that Patrick uses to describe Charlie

What is a wall flower?

300

This was the poem by Philip Larkin that deals with a troubled childhood and the consequences thereof. 

What is This be the Verse?

300

This is the name of the analytical model that we use to analyse narrative structure in novels or short stories (fiction)

What is Freytag's pyramid (or model)?

300

These are some of the main rhetorical devices that Tim Minchin uses to get his message through in 9 Life Lessons (name at least 3)

What is 'humour, repetition, juxtaposition, similies, opposition, antithesis, metaphores...?

400

This is the way to write the negation of the following sentence (nægtende sætning):

You love the way the cookie crumbles

What is: 

You do not love the way the cookie crumbles.

400

This is the name of Charlie's teacher, who gives him books.


Who is Bill?

400

This is the author of the short story Indian Camp

Who was Ernest Hemningway?

400

This is the name of the 5-factor model with which we analyse non-fiction genres?

What is the rhetorical pentagram? (or Cicero's rhetorical pentagram)

400

This is what Jean Twenge has done research in, regarding the youth nowadays (explain in your own words)

What is the relation between the use of smart phones (and social media) and the happiness of the youth generation?

500

This is the explanation why there is a comma in the second sentence but not in the first (explain the rule - you may do this in Danish):

I bought a new house when I found a cat in my closet.

When I found a cat in my closet, I bought a new house.

Hvad er reglen, der siger, at "der er komma mellem ledsætning og hovedsætninger men ikke omvendt"?

What is the rule that instructs you to "put commas between an subordinate clause and a main clause but not the other way around"?

500

This is the author of the novel

Who is Stephen Chbosky?

500

This is the text/work that has the quote:

"Always tell the truth. Always take the high road. Live each day like it could be your last. Drink it in. Be adventurous, be bold, but savor it. It goes fast" 

What is Captain Fantastic?

500

These are the 'linguistic tools', that we use to create effects in our writing

What are rhetorical devices?

500

This is a term that we use to describe what Nick goes through in Indian Camp

What is a 'rite of passage'?

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