Important Authors
This American author wrote The Great Gatsby.
Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
The sentence that states your argument in an essay.
What is a thesis statement/claim?
The main character or hero of a story.
Who is the protagonist?
"To be or not to be"
What is Hamlet?
"She run to the store” has what kind of grammatical error?
What is subject-verb agreement?
The author of the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
A direct quote must be accompanied by this.
What is a citation?
When an object, color, or image represents a bigger idea.
What is symbolism?
"What's in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
What is Romeo & Juliet?
The correct pronoun: “Neither the teacher nor the students brought ___ books.”
What is their?
A famous American young adult author, whose works include Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars.
Who is John Green?
The technique of rephrasing an author’s words in your own words.
What is paraphrasing?
A comparison using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
What is A Midsummer's Night's Dream?
Identify the part of speech: “Quickly” in the sentence “She quickly finished her homework.”
What is an adverb?
This classic American novel begins with the line, “Call me Ishmael.”
What is Moby-Dick?
The structure used in literary analysis writing: Claim → Evidence → … ?
What is reasoning?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players"
What is As You Like It?
The four main parts of speech
What is adverb, adjective, noun, and verb?
This American author popularized Regionalism, writing about distinct areas, with his books Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Who is Mark Twain?
The error when two independent clauses are joined without punctuation or a conjunction.
What is a run-on sentence?
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
"Beware the Ides of March"
What is Julius Ceasar?
Name the point of view “The essay was written by Maria.”
What is third person?