This word names a group of people, places, things or ideas.
What is a collective noun?
100
"The car whined until it made it to the top of the mountain" is an example of this figurative language.
What is personification?
100
This character is the protagonist of The Outsiders.
Who is Ponyboy?
100
"While the cat climbed to the highest branch, the dog ran around the house" is an example of this type of sentence.
What is a complex sentence?
100
The reader's discovery that "Charles" does not exist is an example of this specific type of literary tool.
What is situational irony?
200
The dog ran around the house is an example of an
What is a simple sentence?
200
The use of the same consonant sound at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line or verse is known as
What is alliteration?
200
The Lottery and Charles are both written by the author
Who is Shirley Jackson?
200
"accidentally, often, gently, today" are words that belong to this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
200
"Mr Howard is so smart, he's like a walking textbook" is an example of this specific literary tool.
What is a simile?
300
"yelled" is this specific part of speech.
What is an action verb?
300
The phrase "break a leg" is commonly known as
What is an idiom?
300
A House on Mango street was written by
Who is Sandra Cisneros?
300
"The dog ran around the tree, and climbed to the highest branch" is which type of sentence?
What is a compound sentence?
300
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What is MLA Heading?
400
"and" is an example of an
What is a coordinating conjunction?
400
"Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." (MLK Jr, I Have A Dream)
This is an example of an
What is a metaphor?
400
This author's use of irony and stories that ended with a twist entertained his readers and often left them smiling.
Who is O'Henry or William Sydney Porter?
400
These words are used to join clauses together to form sentences.
What are subordinating and coordinating conjunctions?
400
The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, place, thing or experience is which type of figurative language.
What is imagery?
500
Dan decided that the fuzzy green bread would make an unappetizing sandwich.
The word unappetizing is which part of speech?
What is an adjective?
500
An inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive such as "corpulent" for "fat" is called
What is a euphemism?
500
The line "Stay Gold" comes from this novel and describes the theme of _________________. Include both answers.
What is The Outsiders and staying innocent?
500
This part of speech is used to indicate position and are usually part of a phrase.
What are prepositions?
500
The word and use of names throughout "The House on Mango Street" is an example of this literary tool.