Punctuation
Elements of Fiction
Literary Techniques
Parts of Speech
Random
100
Correctly punctuate the following: June 2 2008
What is June 2, 2008
100
The central figure in a drama or narrative.
What is the protagonist?
100
A technique of disrupting the chronology of a narrative by shifting to an earlier time in order to introduce information.
What is a flashback?
100
Identify the adjective in the following sentence: The purple ball quickly rolled down the street.
What is purple?
100
Identify the type of error in the following sentence. We have a new cat named milo.
What is capitalization error.
200
Correctly place the commas in the following sentence: I like eating oranges apples and pears.
What is I like eating oranges, apples, and pears.
200
A character that opposes the hero.
What is the antagonist?
200
A person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else.
What is symbolism?
200
Identify the adverb in the following sentence: Tanner swiftly ran across the grassy field.
What is swiftly?
200
A word opposite in meaning to another.
What is an antonym?
300
Correctly place commas in the following sentence: The climax of a story movie, play, or other work of literature is marked by a significant action.
What is The climax of a story, movie, play, or other work of literature is marked by a significant action.
300
The major idea or proposition broad enough to cover the entire scope of a work.
What is theme?
300
a comparison to explain an idea.
What is an analogy?
300
Identify the preposition in the following sentence: Alicia was sitting at the table.
What is AT?
300
A narrator reports the facts and interprets events from the perspective of a single character. What type of point of view is this?
What is third-person limited?
400
Correctly punctuate the following dialogue: "Apples are my favorite kind of fruit" replied Angel
What is "Apples are my favorite kind of fruit," replied Angel.
400
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
400
The reader knows something a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
400
Identify the pronoun in the following sentence: Lisa gave her a red apple.
What is HER?
400
What is the best way to combine these two sentences? A newborn Kangaroo must climb into its mother's pouch. The pouch is warm.
What is... A newborn Kangaroo must climb into its mother's warm pouch.
500
Correctly punctuate the following dialogue: Monica screamed "I hate taking tests" as she quickly ran out of the classroom
What is Monica screamed, "I hate taking tests!" as she quickly ran out of the classroom.
500
A point at which a decisive change takes place.
What is turning point?
500
Words or expressions whose meanings are changed.
What is slang?
500
Identify the indefinite pronoun in the following sentence: Allison gave that video game to someone and never got it back.
What is SOMEONE?
500
What is the best way to combine these two sentences? Travelers can cross the United States in a matter of hours. They can do this by airplane.
What is... Travelers can cross the United States, by airplane, in a matter of hours.
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