Grammar and Writing
The subject in the following sentence:
In the play, Julius Caesar, Shakespeare dramatizes the events surrounding Caesar's murder.
What is Shakespeare?
The words at the beginning of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
What is,"Four score and seven years ago......"
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a book in this genre.
What is an autobiography?
This book is about a mischievous yet clever boy growing up along the Mississippi River in the 1830s-1840s, in which the young boy convinces his friends to paint or "white wash" his aunts fence.
What is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer?
When Frederick Douglass was a slave, his owner's wife dared to teach him how to _________ _______ __________?
A. walk and run
B. Read and write
C. Sing and Cheer
What is B, read and write?
When something happens "At the eleventh hour,".Is is happening at this time.
What is at the last possible moment?
A Midsummer Night's Dream was written by this famous writer.
Who is Shakespeare?
General referred to as the first sentence in a paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
Many of Shakespeare's plays were performed at this theater in London.
What is The Globe?
Tennyson's poem, "The Eagle" begins with these lines:
He clasps the crag with crooked hands:
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world he stands.
The Azure world most likely refers to this.
What is the blue sky?
The name of the Nez Perce Native American Chief who surrendered to the American troops and stated, "I will fight no more forever."
Who is Chief Joseph?
Stop for a rest when you reach the park that is ________ through the forest.
A. underway
B. midway
c. postway
What is B, midway?
Carl yelled at his little sister that he is tired of her, stealing his thunder. In this situation, '"steal his thunder means to...."
What is take credit, attention, or praise from the person making the statement.
The Author os The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Who is Mark Twain?
The word that would be considered an adjective in the following sentence.
The Empire State Building is considered to be one of the most beautiful buildings ever built.
What is beautiful?
A poem that became a popular marching song during the Civil War.
What is "Battle Hymn of the Republic?
I am acting like this person when I am looking for clues, trying to solve mysteries, and pretending to be a great detective.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
The lives of the four March sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy, are described in this book.
What is Little Women?
Walt Whitman's poem about the death of President Lincoln in which he ends his poem with these last two lines:
Walk the deck my ________ lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
The word that is missing is.
What is captain?
When you want something so much that you are determined to do it. It doesn't matter what you have to do, you will not quit until it is accomplished
This is the Sayings and Phase that describes this determination.
What is where there is a will, there is a way?
Robert Frost's Poem that is mainly about taken chances.
What is "The Road Not Taken"?
The correct pronoun to complete the sentence below is:
Mr. and Mrs. Jones decided to clean the yard_________.
What is themselves?
Walt Whitman is referring to this person in the poem, "O Captain. My Captain."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Thomas is writing a report about Ancestral Mayan ruins in Mexico and he wants to say that they were well suiited to the landscape and climate, he would make this statement when choosing from the following:
A- No one knows why the community is gone.
B. The ruins are a popular place to visit.
C. The Ancestral Mayan People lived from 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE
What is C, The Ancestral Mayan People lived from 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE
Native Americans of the Southwest tell stories about this trickster.
Who is Coyote?
Jody's mom works in a laboratory as a __________.
A. chemisty
B. chemical
C. chemist
What is C, chemist?
I was so incredibly hungry when I decided to make a cake. As soon as I put it in the oven, my mouth began to water. I insisted on sitting by the oven and waiting until the cake was done. My mother reminded me that, "A watched pot never boils." The phrase A watched pot never boils means this.
What is time passes even slower when you are just waiting around for something to happen?
The author of the nonsense poem, "Jabberwocky", who was also the author of Alice in Wonderland.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
The word that is in italics in the sentence below is this part of speech.
I love to eat apples and oranges.
What is a conjunction?
In this play a mischievous character named Puck puts magic drops in people's eyes that make them fall in love with the first person they see.
What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?
"The moonlight danced on top of the water."
When a poet write about an object as though it has human qualities, the poet is using this literacy device.
What is personification?
A story about a man who has many knightly adventures, including a time in which he thinks he is going to fight giants when in fact they are windmills.
What is Don Quixote?
If our team wins its last gane, we will play in a ____________ tournament next week.
A. postseason
B. unseason
C. interseason
What is A, postseason.
When my best friends are arguing and I don't want to get involved I usually chose to sit on the fence. Sit on the fence means that I chose to do this.
What is choose to stay neutral and not take a side.
The title of the novel written by Miguel de Cervantes about the adventures of a misguided old man who thinks he is a knight in shining armor.
What is Don Quixote?
The word that would be considered verb in the following sentence.
Yesterday Jordan presented a report on his historical figure.
What is presented?
But there is no joy in ____________- Mighty Casey has struck out.
This is the name of the town.
What is Mudville?
When writing an essay this is that part in the introduction paragraph that briefly relates to the prompt and briefly states the topic of each body paragraph.
What is the thesis statement?
He helps Sherlock Holmes solve his cases.
Who is Dr. Watson?
The printing press led to great adventures in our___________.
A. civilized
B. civilization
C. civilizes
What is B, civilization?
I was so angry that I lost my temper and yelled at my friend. I wish I wouldn't have yelled because now I have to eat crow.
In this sentence Eat Crow means.....
What is admit you were wrong and apologize?
The author of, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.
Who is Frederick Douglass?