The era in which Dickens wrote Great Expectations and the years this consists of (roughly).
What is the Victorian Era and late 1800s-early1900s.
100
The eight parts of speech.
What are noun, verb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, adverb, adjective, and pronoun.
100
A noun that means excessive fatness.
What is obesity?
200
A verb that means to pardon or overlook.
What is condone?
200
The people (or animals) who do the action in a story.
What are characters?
200
This is how the story reflects Dickens' own life. Give several instances.
What is Pip is lower class as was Dickens, Pip has great expectations like Dickens, Dickens writes accurately and realistically about the problems that were occurring in England in the novel, etc.
200
List at least three reasons to capitalize a letter.
What are the beginning of a sentence, the first word in a title, and proper nouns.
200
A verb that means to make, manufacture; to make up, invent
What is fabricate?
300
A verb that means to drive out by magic; to dispose of something troublesome, menacing, or oppressive.
What is exorcise?
300
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
300
Affection, loyalty, and conscience are more important than social advancement, wealth, and class.
What is one theme from the novel?
300
The word that proceeds the pronoun and that the pronoun must agree with.
What is the antecedent?
300
A noun that means a likeness; an outward appearance; an apparition
What is semblance?
400
A noun that means a follower, supporter; an adjective that means attached, sticking to.
What is adherent?
400
The opponent of the main character.
Who is the antagonist?
400
The person who attacked Mrs. Joe.
Who is Orlick?
400
Fix this sentence in 3 ways: I don't know where the cans are they were over by the door.
I don't know where the cans are. They were over by the door. I don't know where the cans are, but they were over by the door. I don't know where the cans are; however, they were over by the door. I don't know where the cans are; they were over by the door.
400
An adjective that means commonplace; overused; stale
What is trite?
500
A verb that means to seize and hold a position by force or without right.
What is usurp?
500
The main idea or message of a story.
What is the theme?
500
Predict who will become Pip's best friend.
Who is Herbert Pocket?
500
Identify what part of speech "was" is in the following sentence: The concert was loud.