On Good Authority
One of America's first celebrities and author of "To Build a Fire."
Who is Jack London?
This literary device uses symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism?
True or False: Salem Academy's colors were once green and yellow.
What is True?
True or False: A compound sentence can have more than two independent clauses.
What is true?
This part of speech can be a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
Father of nonsensical literature and author of "Jabberwocky."
Who is Lewis Carroll?
Define theme.
What is the central message or controlling idea of a story.
Famous cartoon character's Snoopy and Underdog are this type of dog breed.
What is a beagle?
This is another name for an independent clause.
What is a simple sentence.
Name the three uses for a verb.
What are: action, occurrence, or state of being.
This monsieur was very skilled in his depiction of French life in the mid to late 1800s.
Who is Guy de Maupassant?
This shape helps to graph the plot of a story and is named after its inventor.
What is Freytag's pyramid?
The Bible is made up of 66 books. This many make up the New Testament.
What is 27?
Identify the dependent clause in this sentence:
Even if he scores a 65 on the final, he will finish the year with an A+ in the class.
What is: Even if he scores a 65 on the final.
Identify all of the modifiers in the following sentence:
The tired English foolishly thought his class would complete their easy homework assignment.
What are: The, tired, foolishly, his, easy, homework.
This famous short story writer went by pseudonym O. Henry.
Who is William Sydney Porter?
This literary period is acknowledged as a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions.
What is romanticism?
This is where Mr. Crew went to college.
What is Pensacola Christian College?
A compound-complex sentence consists of...
What is at least one dependent clause and one independent clause?
Identify the verbal and its type in the following sentence:
Evan enjoys losing to Mr. Crew in CFB26.
What is losing- it is a gerund.
This author was not born during the peak of his favorite literary movement, but considers himself to be quite romantic.
Who is Dylan Thomas?
Define irony, its three types, and an example for each.
What is: when events or words are the opposite of what is expected.
What are: verbal, situational, and dramatic.
Examples vary.
Name on of Mr. Crew's top 5 Spotify artists in 2024.
Who is/are: Still Woozy, Her's, Sabrina Carpenter, Mac Demarco, Chappell Roan.
In thirty seconds or less, create a complex sentence.
Answers vary.
Sing the entirety of the "Being Verbs Song" without missing one.
What is: Am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, have, has, had, do, does, did, shall, will, should, would, may, might, must, can, and could.