Freak The Mighty
What is Freaks real name?
Kevin
I can’t run fast, but I can run long distances.
What part of speech is but in the sentence?
Coordinating Conjunction
What does the root word ben, bene, and bon stand for?
Good
What does the italicized word or phrase function as?
A choice must be given in every circumstance.
Adverb prep phrase
This author wrote The Hobbit and created the world of Middle-earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
What did Max say he always remembered and would never forget?
His mother's murder
"I welcome a swift end to this horrible test!"
What part of speech is swift in this sentence?
Adjective
What does the root word mal and male stand for?
Bad
"Codys report on sharks was excellent!"
What punctuation is missing in the sentence?
Apostrophe
This element has the chemical symbol “O” and is essential for human respiration.
oxygen
Why didn’t Max and Kevin get in trouble in the principal’s office on their first day of 8th grade?
Kevin surprised the principal with his word knowledge.
"That is what I am talking about!"
What part of speech is That in the sentence?
Pronoun
What does the root word bio stand for?
Life
"The football players, except for John, is warming up on the field."
What type of error does this sentence have?
Subject-verb agreement
This 17th-century scientist formulated the three laws of motion and wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Isaac Newton
What did Kevin tell Killer Kane was in his big squirt gun?
Sulfuric Acid
"If only I were better at language, I would know the answer."
What part of speech is better in the sentence?
Predicate Adjective
Something, typically money, awarded to someone in recognition of loss, suffering, or injury.
Compensation
Once on the TV this dude hypnotized a lobster. Maybe you saw it. He touches a lobster and it freezes, it can’t move. That’s sort of what happens to me when his hand clamps over my mouth. Like I’m paralyzed and my head is empty and all there is in the world is that big hand and this cool breath like the wind.
What kind of figurative language is being used here?
Metaphor
This African lake is the world’s deepest and contains about 20% of the planet’s unfrozen freshwater.
Lake Baikal
Once on the TV this dude hypnotized a lobster. Maybe you saw it. He touches a lobster and it freezes, it can’t move. That’s sort of what happens to me when his hand clamps over my mouth. Like I’m paralyzed and my head is empty and all there is in the world is that big hand and this cool breath like the wind.
What event is this paragraph leading up to?
Max's kidnapping
"My tardies were hastily discovered by my mother."
What part of speech is hastily in this sentence?
Adverb
What do you call a tumor that is not harmful?
Malignant
"Mrs. Stevens is a great director. We gave him a bouquet of roses."
What kind of error does this sentence have?
Pronoun-antecedent agreement error
The only surviving manuscript of this Old English epic — badly damaged in an 18th-century fire and now housed in the British Library — is the main reason we know this monster-slaying hero today
Beowulf