The part of an essay that grabs the reader's attention
What is the hook?
100
Neither my brother or my sisters (is/are) going to the game tomorrow night.
What is are?
100
"Allie had a million pairs of shoes in her closet" is an example of what rhetorical device?
What is a hyperbole?
100
Author of The Crucible
Who is Arthur Miller?
200
Author of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
200
Last sentence of your introductory paragraph
What is thesis statement/ claim?
200
Where should the comma/commas go?
According to the text Madison used parallelism anaphora and similes.
What is after text, after parallelism and after anaphora?
200
"Her voice is music to my ears."
What is a metaphor?
200
Most commonly used letter in the English langauge
What is "e"?
300
Reason the Declaration of Independence written?
What is to break free from the rule of Britain?
300
The one thing that should be included in EVERY paragraph
What are transition words?
300
Difference between using parentheses and using dashes
What is dashes for emphasizing and parentheses for de-emphasizing?
300
"Five years have passed;
Five summers, with the length of
Five long winters! and again I hear these waters…”
What is anaphora or what is tricolon?
300
The official language of the sky
What is English?
400
The 8th Amendment says...
What is no cruel or unusual punishment?
400
What are 4 examples of a hook?
What is general statement, quote, statistics, anecdote?
400
What are two rules for using a colon?
What is in between two independent clauses when the second clause elaborates, explains, or paraphrases the first, and to introduce a list?
400
“My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.” - Barack Obama
What is parallelism?
400
The shortest complete sentence in the English is...
What is "I am"?
500
Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?
What is not to give the government too much power? (To spell out people's rights.)
500
The three things that should be in EVERY body paragraph...
What is topic sentence, evidence, and elaboration?
500
What can be used instead of commas and when?
What is dashes and parentheses, and when they are setting off a nonessential clause?
500
"There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women’s shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher."
What is polysyndeton?
500
The word with the most definitions in the English langauge