KDHS
Lit Terms
Meet Mrs. McK.
Plagiarism
Potpourri
100

The mascot of KDHS.

A panther.

100

A comparison using like or as.

What is a simile?

100

Mrs. McK's favorite book.

What is Hamlet? 

100

True or False.  You must always cite ideas or words that are not yours.

What is true? 

100

The place you will find our classwork.

What is Google Classroom?

200

The colors of KDHS.

What are black and gold/yellow?

200

A comparison in which the writer says something is something else.

What is a metaphor?

200

How many children does Mrs. McK. have?

What is one?

200

Citations within an essay.

What are in-text or parenthetical citations?

200

Mrs. McK. will do small group instruction during these periods which happen twice a week.

What are flex periods?

300

The subject area Mrs. McK. teaches.

What is English? 

300

Words that appeal to the five senses.

What is imagery?

300

One of Mrs. McK's hobbies.

What is yoga?

300

The list of sources at the end of an essay.

What is a Works Cited?

300

The two texts we will be using this quarter.

What are:

ELA 12 Collections and Close Reader

Honors A Thousand Splendid Suns and Night

400

The number of years Mrs. McK. has taught at KDHS.

What is 13 years? 

400

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects.

What is personification?

400

One of Mrs. McK.'s favorite Disney characters.

Who is Minnie Mouse?

400

True or False. You do not need to cite sources if you put the author's words into your own words.

What is false? 

400

The teacher who has been the longest at KDHS.

Who is Sarge?

500

Mrs. McK.'s room #

What is 131?

500

A brief reference to a well-known piece of literature, historical event, place, or person.

What is an allusion? 

500

The name of Mrs. McK's hedgehog.

What is Scout?

500

The form of citation that the English department uses.

What is MLA 8?

500

The decade KDHS was built.

What are the 1980s?

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