Run Ons & Fragments
Punctuation
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Critical Literary Lenses
100

CS, FS, FRAG, or grammatically correct sentence?

The end of the year.

Fragment

100

When the school year is over many teachers plan to visit their friends and family in other states.

When the school year is over , many teachers plan to visit their friends and family in other states.

100

(adj) standing still, not moving

stationary

100

(n) one who goes against, rival

opponent

100

Name the 5 lenses we learned about this semester

1. New Criticism/Formalism

2. New Historicism

3. Gender/Feminist

4. Marxist/Social Class

5. Psychoanalytic 

200

CS, FS, FRAG, or grammatically correct sentence?

Running to make the flight on time.

Fragment

200

My best friend who plays on the soccer team scored highest on the exam.

My best friend, who plays on the soccer team, scored highest on the exam.

200

(n) speed, quickness

rapidty

200

(v) to squeeze tightly

constrict

200

Which lens required the reader to consider the power that money plays in the text?

Marxist/Social Power

300

CS, FS, FRAG, or grammatically correct sentence?

The weather is getting warmer it is almost summer!

Fused Sentence

300

Crumbl Cookies sells an amazing variety of cookies chocolate chip peanut butter and sugar.

Crumbl Cookies sells an amazing variety of cookies: chocolate chip, peanut butter, and sugar.

300

(adj) having too much confidence

presumptuous

300

(v) to complain about something in an irritating way

gripe

300

Which lens draws beliefs from the teachings of Sigmund Freud?

Psychoanalytic 

400

CS, FS, FRAG, or grammatically correct sentence?

At Chipotle, I always add guacamole, I also get a tortilla on the side.

Comma Splice

400

I am proud of the Class of 2023 therefore I attended graduation last week.

I am proud of the Class of 2023; therefore, I attended graduation last week.

400

(n) something that saves or helps

deliverance

400

(adj) having no moral principles; not honest

unscrupulous

400

Which critical literary lens assumes that the writer’s intentions when writing the book are unavailable and irrelevant?

Formalist

500

CS, FS, FRAG, or grammatically correct sentence?

She made an ice cream sundae and ate it on the front porch.

Grammatically correct sentence!

500

I thought Gatsby was sane but I changed by mind after he said "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can."

I thought Gatsby was sane, but I changed by mind after he said, "Can't repeat the past? Why of course you can."

500

Which 2 words on the list are opposite of one another?

Liberal and conservative

500

(adj) characteristic of the middle class, especially in reference to materialistic values

BUT you MUST pronounce it correctly in order to get points

bourgeois

500
Provide a New Criticism analysis of The Catcher in the Rye.

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