Essays
Literary Devices
Fix It
Sentence level
Misused and Abused
100
The number of writings on the STAAR now.
What is one?
100
The river, a long and blue snake, slithered through town.
What is a metaphor?
100
My dad and I were very intertained by the movie.
What is change "intertained" to "entertained"?
100

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! These are conjunctions used to combine two sentences.

What is FANBOYS?

100
This is a contraction for "it is".
What is "it's"?
200

True or false: the STAAR essay portion can be written on paper.

What is False? (Your entire test is online! Make sure not to type like you text!)

200

The wind whispered in my ear as I walked home.

What is personification?

200
My friend Amanda who is really tall plays basketball.
What is put a comma after "Amanda" and after "tall"?
200
To be a complete sentence, you must have what 2 things?
What is a subject and a verb?
200

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! This is the possessive form for the word "it".

What is "its"?

300
The highest score you can get on an essay on STAAR?
What is 4?
300
He laughed like a donkey.
What is simile?
300

You need too use the dictionary.

What is correct "too" to "to"?

300

What is a way to fix a run-on sentence?

What is FANBOYS and a comma, recombine/re-word

300

I've got too much shoes in my closet! 

What is change "much" "many"? (Quantifiers - too much is used for uncountable items like water, too many is used for countable items like shoes) 

400

The minimum amount of paragraphs your essay should have? 

What is 4 (introduction, 1-2 body paragraphs, and conclusion?

400
What we call clues or hints that something is going to happen.
What is foreshadowing?
400
My dog and cat was getting along yesterday for the first time.
What is change "was" to "were"?
400
You must use commas to separate items in a list of ________ or more.
What is three?
400
This word is the possessive form for the word "them" or "they". The toy was _______.
What is theirs?
500

At minimum, your introduction paragraph should include a hook to engage the reader and what else?

What is thesis (opinion/your answer to the question)?

500

What is the difference between tone and mood? 

What is tone refers to the author's attitude toward a subject and mood to the reader's feelings evoked by a text 

500
Where did you put them books for my class?
What is change "them" to "those"?
500
This must be true of two sentences to join them by a semicolon (;).
What is they must be related and both independent.
500
This is a contraction for the words "they are".
What is "they're"?
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