GRAMMAR
When I fly on an airplane I like to sit by the window.
This sentence is missing a type of punctuation. What is it missing?
What is a comma
These are examples and quotations from the passage. You use them to back up what you think.
What is evidence?
William Shakespeare wrote The ______ of Romeo and Juliet.
What word goes in the blank: comedy, skit, tragedyWhat is tragedy?
Since Judge Thomas and he were of one mind on the issue, Judge Sanders wrote a concurrent opinion. What does the italicized word mean: disagreeing, despondent, agreeing, or hostile
What is agreeing?
In this part of the writing process, you gather your thoughts and sometimes create thinking maps.
What is prewriting?
The display of body art is created with permanent markers.
The italicized part of the sentence is which type of phrase: relative, absolute, noun, participal
What is noun phrase?
What are the parts of the plot?
A play that is written to be humorous is a: tragedy, comedy, skit, or melodrama
What is a comedy?
The coach told me to tackle the man with the ball. In this sentence the word tackle is used as a: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective
What is a verb?
The main point that you are trying to make to your audience in your essay is called this.
What is thesis or central idea?
Even swim teams have big, festive celebrations after meets.
The italicized part of the sentence is a noun phrase, a participial phrase, an adjectival phrase, or a verb phrase
What is an adjectival phrase?
These compare things using like or as
What is a similie?
Using words like "Bang" and "Pow" to mimic sounds is called poetry, drama, onomatopoeia, or alliteration
What is onomatopoeia?
Liquid gas would be known as: denotation, connotation, etymology or oxymoron
What is oxymoron?
The selection of words that you use as a writer is called this.
What is word choice?
I like my new house however, I miss all of my friends.
This sentence is missing a semicolon. Where does it go?
What is in front of however?
This is the dictionary meaning of a word.
What is denotation?
Twinkle, twinkle little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
What is the rhyme scheme?
What is A,A,B,B
The denotation of both exploited and utilized is: manipulated, used, benefited, sabotaged
What is used?
A question designed to make readers think than to get a specific answer is called this.
What is rhetorical question?
List three different instances where you will use a colon.
In a formal letter, telling time, introducing lists or in Bible verses
When a reference is made to a well-known current or historical figure, place or event
What is an allusion?
When one character is speaking to himself or herself this is called: dialogue, monologue, soliloquy
What is soliloquy?
Roger wouldn't do his work, so unfortunately the company had to let him go.
Let him go means this in the context: let him explore other opportunities, promote him, assault him, fire him
What is fire him?
If the author wants to begin the excerpt with a rhetorical question to engage the reader, which would be best:
Have you every heard of the Revolutionary War?
Do you know the best way to fight in a war?
Have you ever heard of the movie The Patriot?
What is Have you ever heard of the movie The Patriot?