A machine or device created to make a system operate more efficiently.
What is an invention?
100
A humorous story told for entertainment purposes in early America about a real person but exaggerated beyond belief to create a hero/ heroine.
What is a tall tale?
100
The separation of groups based on distinguishing physical features, beliefs, or behaviors.
What is segregation?
100
This genre often includes alternative worlds or societies where humans exist, but the rules of the society are very different from ours today.
What is science fiction?
100
The eight roles that words play in sentences depending on their uses, including noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
What are parts of speech?
200
An improvement to a system or device to make it more efficient.
What is an innovation?
200
A story involving gods or goddesses interacting with humans that explains something in nature or teaches a lesson.
What is a myth?
200
A speech given by Abraham Lincoln to honor the fallen soldiers of the Civil War, and rededicate Americans to the cause of unity and freedom.
What is The Gettysburg Address?
200
A perfect society.
What is a utopia?
200
The four types of sentences used in writing paragraphs.
What are simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex?
300
An early American system of horseback riders who traveled 75 miles a day to deliver mail across the United States.
What is The Pony Express?
300
She was kidnapped by Hades to become the queen of the Underworld. Her mother mourned her loss by creating the season of winter.
Who is Persephone?
300
The persecution and slaughter of Jews, gypsies, and the disabled in Europe by the Germans in the 1940's.
What is the Holocaust?
300
An imperfect society.
What is a dystopia?
300
Every paragraph must have one of these that helps focus the detail sentences.
What is a topic sentence?
400
This invention replaced the telegraph as a faster and more efficient means of sending messages through electric lines across long distances.
What is the telephone?
400
A low point of an epic hero is followed by these two stages of resolution.
What is resurrection and restitution?
400
The Indian leader who inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. and others to use the power of nonviolence in fighting social injustice.
Who is Gandhi?
400
His fear of technology has spawned many stories that indict technology for the destruction of mankind.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
400
These words and phrases like while, in conclusion, whereas, and first, next, and finally help to smooth out one's writing while helping the reader know a new topic is being discussed.
What are transition words?
500
The exchange of information or news from one source to another.
What is communication?
500
The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus' epic journey home; he had to prove his worthiness to the gods for doing this.
What is neglecting to thank the gods?
500
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech compared America's promise to African Americans to this.
What is a bad check?
500
These images on the wall of the smart house indicated a nuclear explosion had occurred.
What are silhouettes?
500
Two of three types of sentence errors where sentences are incomplete or combined incorrectly into one sentence.
What are sentence fragments, comma splices, or run-on sentences?