Figurative Language
Grammar and Writing
Commas and Quotations
Of Beetles and Angels
Miscellaneous
100
Comparing two things using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Where does the comma go in the following sentence? Even though I was tired I couldn't fall asleep.
What is after "tired?"
100
Where does a comma go when you have two adjectives next to each other in a sentence?
What is between the two adjectives?
100
What is the first name of the author?
What is Selamawi or Mawi?
100
Identify the adverb: I successfully completed the school year.
What is successfully?
200
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
"My" is an example of what type of pronoun?
What is possessive pronoun?
200
True or false: When using quotations, you should capitalize the first word in the beginning of the quote.
What is True?
200
What Haileab did for a living when he was in Sudan.
What is a physician or doctor?
200
Identify the proper noun: Dr. Cunningham is the principal of the school.
What is Dr. Cunningham?
300
A tongue-twister.
What is alliteration?
300
Identify the noun in the sentence: School is almost over.
What is "School?."
300
True or false: When using quotations, the punctuation mark goes after the quotation marks.
What is False?
300
Similarities about Haileab and Tewolde's death.
What is they both got killed by a drunk driver?
300
What the boys stole in the story that almost got them arrested.
What is a parking meter?
400
An exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
400
The last step in the writing process.
What is Publishing?
400
Add a comma in the correct location: Mom said "Clean your room right now!"
What is after "said"?
400
The person that the family took in and considered him an angel.
What is "Address Book Man?"
400
Time flies is an example of what?
What is an idiom?
500
Giving an object human-like features.
What is personification?
500
What are the author's purposes for writing.
What is Persuade, Inform, and entertain?
500
Add the commas in the right location(s): The colors of the American flag are red white and blue.
What is after "red" and after "white?"
500
The University that the main character graduated from.
What is Harvard University?
500
The father's favorite line in "Of Beetles and Angels."
What is "I will make you lost?"
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