Because a headline should be designed to impress a reader as quickly as possible, Mr. Dachs compares writing headlines to this form of courtship.
What is speed dating?
100
This type of feature gives a step by step explanation of how to do something that many people don't know how to do.
What is a "how-to" feature?
100
A hard news article can be graphically compared to this shape.
What is an inverted pyramid?
100
James Madison HS was founded in this year.
What is 1925?
100
"an unexpected journey"
What is THE HOBBIT?
200
In order to not mislead the reader and help them decide if they want to read the article, a headline must do this.
What is honestly tell the main idea of the story?
200
This type of feature reveals the character or lifestyle of an extremely interesting individual.
What is a profile?
200
Though a sentence may be structured in formats other than S-V-O, in these sentences, there is always this before the subject.
What is a comma?
200
Madison is the capital of this US state
What is Wisconsin?
200
"May the odds ever be in your favor."
What is THE HUNGER GAMES?
300
Almost all headlines are written in this tense.
What is the present tense?
300
This is the sole purpose of the beginning of a feature.
What is to grab the reader's interest?
300
Though a feature can take any shape the journalist chooses, because of their use of literary elements to tell a story, features often closely resemble this in structure.
What is the plot structure of a novel?
300
This building is located on the corner of 34th Street & 7th Ave. in Manhattan.
What is Madison Square Garden?
300
"When you can live forever, what do you live for?"
What is TWILIGHT?
400
Journalists will add this to their headlines using alliteration, rhyming, and puns to try to attract readers to their stories.
What is "flair"?
400
This type of feature tells the story of a person behind the story. It relays the news through the story of a person.
What is a human interest story?
400
A sentence containing two subjects with no conjunction is called this.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
A Madison piercing is a body piercing that goes through this part of the body.
What is the front of the neck?
400
"You don't get 500 million friends without making a few enemies."
What is THE SOCIAL NETWORK?
500
In order to be as concise as possible, journalists eliminate these two types of words from their headlines most of the time.
What are articles and the "be" verb?
500
While a hard news story begins by summarizing the 5W&H, many feature writers use suspense and start their articles with this.
What is the chronological beginning of the story?
500
Nearly all quotations in an article should follow this format.
What is introduce, new parag., quote, and attribute?
500
This 1803 Supreme Court decision formed the basis for judicial review by separating the judicial and executive branches.