Poetry
Novel Study
Media
Journalism
Grammar
100
The wind whispered wildly through the woods.
What is alliteration?
100
The first significant event, that sets the story in motion.
What is the initiating incident?
100
Three places you could find advertising.
What are TV, radio, internet, social media, games, buses, billboards, newspapers, etc.?
100
The large bold text at the top of a news article that hooks the reader.
What is a headline?
100
tiny (small), happy (ecstatic), cold (freezing).
What are synonyms?
200
Lightning danced across the sky.
What is personification?
200
A positive resolution to a story.
What is a denouement?
200
Cigarettes, alcohol, and gambling.
What are products that cannot be advertised to children?
200
The first sentence of a news article that contains the 5W's and 1H.
What is a lede (lead)?
200
A word that sounds the same as another word, but is spelled differently.
What is a homonym?
300
Quatrain is to sonnet as paragraph is to ___________.
What is essay?
300
Citing speech from a novel is called this.
What is a direct quotation?
300
Basing a character in an advertisement on assumptions or generalizations.
What is a stereotype?
300
Writing an article using facts or references that only support one side of the story.
What is bias?
300
An example of a common, proper, possessive, and a plural possessive noun.
house, Victoria, boy's, boys'
400
Jumbo shrimp!
What is an oxymoron?
400
The most exciting part of a story.
What is the climax?
400
The group which governs advertising in Canada.
What is the ASC (Advertising Standards Canada)?
400
Introducing your own opinion into a news article.
What is editorializing / an editorial?
400
Name the four types of sentences.
What are interrogative, exclamatory, declarative, and imperative?
500
Five "feet," each with a pair of unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
The name for the beginning of a story, where we are introduced to characters, tone, and setting.
What is the exposition?
500
Five of the nine most common advertising strategies.
What are value, celebrity endorsement, statistics, power & excitement, beauty, icons & logos, jingles & slogans, humour, emotions.
500
Name four news determinants that help editors determine the news value of a story.
What are prominence, timeliness, proximity, consequence, human interest (oddity, conflict, emotion.)
500
The punctuation needed here: Luis travelled to Vancouver_BC_Calgary_AB_Regina_SK_and Toronto_ON_
What is , ; , ; , ; , .?
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