Punctuation & Editing
American Authors
Vocabulary
Anagram Synonyms
Pop Culture
100

This punctuation is used to enclose the title of a short story.

What are quotation marks?

100

This lawyer is best known for his book Just Mercy.

Who is Bryan Stevenson?

100
To be released from prison, usually for good behavior

What is parole?

100

Angered

What is enraged?

100

This singer's album "Sour" won the 2022 Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album.

Who is Olivia Rodrigo?

200

In MLA format, entries on your Works Cited page go in this order.

What is alphabetical order?

200

A poet who often wrote about nature, you might know him from his poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" or "The Road not Taken."

Who is Robert Frost?

200

This kind of character changes over the course of a story.

What is dynamic?

200

Vile

What is evil?

200

The most popular video game in the "sandbox" genre, this is also the top-selling video game of all time.

What is Minecraft?

300
This punctuation is missing in the following sentence: Andy screamed "What do you think you are doing?"
What is a comma after "screamed"? ?
300

This poet gained much of her fame from reading her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the 2021 presidential inauguration ceremony.

Who is Amanda Gorman?

300

While this word can also refer to unpaid debts, it is a term associated with petty crimes committed by minors.

What is delinquency?

300

Testament

What is statement?

300

This was the most watched show on Netflix in 2021.

What is Squid Game?

400

While this isn't its most common usage, this punctuation can be used for lists in some cases.

What is a semicolon?

400

This 19th-century writer is best known for many short stories in the horror genre and one poem about a talking bird.

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

400

In poetry, this means repetition of a word or phrase at the beginnings of lines or sentences.

What is anaphora?

400

Moon starer

Astronomer

400

This word is in the subtitle of all three movies in the most recent Spider-man trilogy.

What is home?

500

There are three kinds of dashes: hyphen, en dash, and _______.

What is an em dash?

500

This author, known for writing about the extravagance of the 1920's, had a home in Saint Paul, Minnesota sometimes referred to as Summit Terrace.

Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?

500

In a poem about his father, Robert Hayden uses this word to describe a love that feels more stern or serious than one might expect.

What is austere?

500

Eleven plus two

Twelve plus one

500

Minnesota music icon Prince passed away that year.

What is 2016?

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