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The biggest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Shakespeare wrote plays and poems during this century.
What is the 16th century (late-1500s)?
This term refers to the underlying message or central idea of a text.
What is theme?
The maximum number of items that a player can hold in their inventory in 1 spot.
What is 64?
The part of an essay that clearly states the main argument or point the writer will discuss.
What is the thesis statement?
The process of breaking down the rock which is the Earth's surface.
What is erosion?
This famous Shakespearean play features two young lovers from feuding families.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This term refers to the struggle between opposing forces in a story, which drives the plot.
What is conflict?
This will happen if you put a skeleton into powdered snow.
Why will it turn into a Stray?
This type of writing aims to convince the reader to accept a particular point of view or take a specific action.
What is argumentative or persuasive writing?
This shape is a quadrilateral with 2 sets of parallel sides and the sides in each set are the same length.
What is a parallelogram?
The famous line, "Knock, knock," used in jokes, and the term "assassination" both come from this Shakespearean play.
A literary device that involves exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
What Minecraft used to be called.
What is Cave Game?
This part of an essay summarizes the main points and restates the thesis in a new way.
What is the conclusion?
A type of poem where the first letters of each line spell a word.
What is an acrostic poem?
According to "Lure of Shakespeare," this new medium from the twentieth century helped popularize Shakespeare's works.
What are movies and television?
This term describes a word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
The creator of Minecraft.
Who is Notch?
This type of writing provides factual information about a topic and is often found in textbooks and articles.
What is informational or expository writing?
This was the purpose of the Colosseum in Rome.
What are gladiator fights, animal fights and executions?
This famous line, "To be or not to be," is from one of Shakespeare's most well-known plays.
What is Hamlet?
This punctuation mark is used to indicate possession or the omission of letters.
What is an apostrophe?
The year that Minecraft was released.
What is 2015?
This part of an essay provides evidence and analysis to support the thesis statement.
What is the body paragraph?