'S' Words
Famous Authors
Huck Finn
Grammar
Writing
100
The person or thing a sentence is about.
What is the subject?
100
The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Who is Mark Twain?
100
Huck's best friend and namesake of another Twain book
Who is Tom Sawyer?
100
The punctuation when listing items
What is a comma?
100
The process of brainstorming and preparing to write
What is prewriting?
200
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
200
George Orwell's famous satire of the Russian Revolution.
What is Animal Farm
200
The slave Huck runs away with
Who is Jim?
200
The punctuation used to imply an interrogative remark
What is a question mark?
200
The recommended length of timed writing or short essay
What is five paragraphs?
300
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
300
Herman Melville's famous character who would "prefer not to"
Who is Bartleby?
300
The families that are feuding
Who are the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords?
300
The punctuation used to separate two main clauses
What is a semicolon?
300
The sentence that contains the main idea of a paragraph
What is the topic sentence?
400
The act of separating things or people.
What is segregation?
400
The author who wrote the short story "The Man in the Black Suit"
Who is Stephen King?
400
The self-imposed titles of the con men that board the raft
Who are the Duke and the Dauphin?
400
The proper way to identify a novel or other large work of art
What is underlining?
400
Another name for the first paragraph of an essay
What is the introductory paragraph?
500
Term that implies the use of 'Because' or 'Since'
What is subordination?
500
The author who inspired the man who wrote "The Man in the Black Suit"
Who is Nathanial Hawthorne?
500
The place Huck does not wish to go
What is heaven?
500
Two words that sound alike but have different meanings
What are homophones?
500
The main idea of the entire work
What is the thesis statement?
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