Points of View
Isn't it ironic?
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Matters of Punctuation
100
a narrator tells a story from an outsider's perspective but does not reveal the thoughts of any character
What is 3rd person objective?
100
Saturday Night Live's Charlie Sheen skit "Duh, Winning" in which Sheen and other celebrities going through hard times celebrate themselves.
What is dramatic irony?
100
The audience was dazzled by the lady's glittery red dress.
What is The lady's glittery red dress dazzled the audience?
100
a short or abbreviated recording of main topic and key ideas (paraphrase, summary, or critique)
What is a summary?
100
use one of these punctuation marks to put together two complete sentences
What is semi-colon or period?
200
a narrator tells the story from an outsider's perspective but reveals the thoughts of every character
What is 3rd person omniscient?
200
In the movie "The Sixth Sense" (aka: "I see dead people."), a psychologist tries to help a young boy who says that he can see and talk to dead people. In the end, it is revealed that the psychologist IS dead.
What is situational irony?
200
I am shocked by your lack of interest in the class.
What is Your lack of interest in the class shocks me?
200
the most highly focused research topic on Marie Curie: (MC's research that led to her Nobel prizes, MC's effects on contemporary scientists, MC's experiments that resulted in the element polonium, MC's studies in physics and math at the College de Sorbonne)
What is MC'S EXPERMIENTS THAT RESULTED IN THE ELEMENT POLONIUM?
200
what must accompany a FANBOY when the conjunction is being used to join two complete sentences
What is comma?
300
a narrator reveals the story from an inside perspective, revealing only his thoughts and experiences.
What is first person?
300
Stephen Crane's refrain "war is kind"
What is verbal irony?
300
It was said that you cheated on the EOC.
What is Someone said you cheated on the EOC?
300
a writer offers his/her opinion on another writer's ideas in this (paraphrase, summary, critique)
What is critique?
300
the punctuation mark used to indicate a list of items will follow
What is colon?
400
a narrator reveals the story from an outsider's perspective and reveals the thoughts of some of the characters
What is third person limited omniscient?
400
In "The Black Cat," the narrator claims to have killed his favorite pet Pluto because he loved him.
What is situational irony?
400
Nick was invited to Gatsby's party by Gatsby himself.
What is Gatsby himself invited Nick to his party?
400
represents a primary source of information about a topic on a famous scientist: (magazine article comparing two scientists, a scholarly article criticizing the scientist, a student-written essay on the scientist, a journal kept by the scientist during his research)
What is a journal?
400
three appropriate punctuation marks to join two independent clauses
What is period, semi-colon, comma and coord. conjunction?
500
And how often I've wanted to escape to a wilderness where a human hand has not been on everything.
What is first person?
500
In "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," the reader finds out that Peyton Farquahar's escape took place in his mind.
What is situational irony?
500
Crook's was told by Curley's wife to remember his "place."
What is Crooks told Curley's wife to remember his "place"?
500
represents a secondary source of information on Edgar Allan Poe, which is the topic of your research paper: (scholarly journal article analyzing Poe's classical allusions, a book of Poe's short stories, a collection of Poe's early poems, one of Poe's literary criticism from the Southern Literary Messenger)
What is SCHOLARLY JOURNAL ARTICLE?
500
two punctuation marks used to add emphasis in the middle of a thought or at the end of a thought
What is dash or parenthesis?
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