Give the first names of the two characters that made up “Freak the Mighty.”
Kevin and Max
100
A person, place or thing
Noun
100
The events that happen in a story right after the climax.
Falling Action
100
Name the type of poem which we wrote in the style of Directv commercials.
Cause/Effect
200
Which character from The Outsiders despondently shouted “don’t die, Johnny”?
Dallas Winston
200
Name the story written 14 years before the Titanic set sail which was an account of a ship that hit an iceberg, did not have enough life boats and sunk in the North Atlantic, similar to the real-life story of the Titanic.
Wreck of the Titan
200
Describes a verb
Adverb
200
A reference to another work of art is called what?
Allusion
200
Beowulf is considered an epic poem. Name the poem we read that is a mock-epic.
Casey at the Bat
300
Which “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” character’s eventual demise came from his decision to go to Floral Street to see if the power was out there?
Pete Van Horn
300
The Titanic left port on April 10, 1912 from Southampton, England. In which city was the ill-fated ship built?
Belfast, Ireland
300
Links two fragments or two sentences together
Conjunction
300
"The house stared at me with terrible, deadly eyes, and shouted at me to stay away" is an example of what?
Personification
300
Name the poem in which a unit of British cavalry were grossly outmanned and surrounded by Russian military forces.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
400
In “Was Tarzan a Three-Bandage Man,” Bill Cosby writes about his sports heroes. Name the boxer and the baseball player who both had the same last name that he mentions in the story.
Jackie Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson
400
Name the author the story of the protective dog, Dirk, who protected a boy in exchange for greasy hamburgers.
Gary Paulsen
400
An exclamation expressing emotion: a sound, word, or phrase that expresses a strong emotion such as pain or surprise or a word or phrase which interrupts a thought or idea.
Interjection
400
Kenny Kane was a character who was evil throughout the novel Freak the Mighty. He did not change, so he would be considered what kind of character?
Static
400
Which poet’s poems can be sung to the tune of “Gilligan’s Island?”
Emily Dickinson
500
Name the Danish king for whom Beowulf came to rid his country from the monster Grendel.
Hrothgar
500
Which person who made it to a lifeboat from the Titanic was deemed "Unsinkable"?
Molly Brown
500
A phrase that modifies a noun and tells where a noun or pronoun is in relation to other things – this can be determined by using the bee and the bottle example.
Prepositional phrase
500
Martin Luther King Jr. repeats lines such as “I have a dream” and “Free at last” multiple times throughout his “I have a Dream” speech. Of which oratorical device is this an example?
Refrain
500
Recite “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.