Writing
Parts of Speech
Grammar
Comprehension
Potpourri
100
Write a sentence for submission that uses a simile
What is A comparison using like or as
100
Identify all nouns: When the garbage companies went on strike the trash formed big piles outside of homes.
Companies, Strike, Trash, Piles, Homes
100
Correct the comma usage in this sentence: To succeed as a pitcher you must have control speed and confidence.
What is To succeed as a pitcher you must have control, speed, and confidence.
100
Information about the ___________ of the story is being shown in the first paragraph. The dry arid landscape where I grew up in the 1920's was depressing. Now, as I am returning to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1950 the town has not improved. Main street, a once booming district, was now filled with empty buildings. Pulling up to my childhood home at 46 Robin Way I couldn't help but feel upset looking upon the empty house.
What is Setting
100
When writing a TDAQ, what MUST you include in your written response?
What is Quotes/Textual Evidence
200
What is the metaphor comparing in the sentence below. John’s answer to the problem was just a Band-Aid, not a solution.
band aid - answer
200
Identify all of the adverbs: I could barely walk after the grueling cross country practice. It felt like we were running endlessly, but it was only 8 miles.
What is Barely, Endlessly
200
Identify the preposition I scored a touchdown when I jumped over the defensive player.
What is Over
200
What has accelerated erosion? Erosion of America's farmland by wind and water has been a problem since settlers first put the prairies and grasslands under the plow in the nineteenth century. By the 1930s, more than 282 million acres of farmland were damaged by erosion. After 40 years of conservation efforts, soil erosion has accelerated due to new demands placed on the land by heavy crop production. In the years ahead, soil erosion and the pollution problems it causes are likely to replace petroleum scarcity as the nation's most critical natural resource problem.
What is New demands for heavy crop production
200
What teams are in the 2017 Final Four?
What is South Carolina, North Carolina, Oregon, Gonzaga
300
Write a sentence that uses personification properly
What is Assigning human qualities to objects
300
Identify the pronoun and its antecedent Bob Dylan won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, his victory stands out because of his prominence as a singer/songwriter.
What is His
300
Include punctuation where needed. Wrestlemania the largest WWE event of the year will take place this weekend Superstars like John Cena Roman Reigns and The Undertaker will all be competing
Wrestlemania, the largest WWE event of the year, will take place this weekend. Superstars like John Cena, Roman Reigns, and The Undertaker will all be competing.
300
What are the 5 stages of plot?
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
300
This author was famous for short stories and poems in the horror genre. Some of his most famous works are The Pit and the Pendulum, The Raven, and The Tell-Tale Heart.
Edgar Allen Poe
400
Where are dashes needed? The professor began his lecture, but at first was interrupted. "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell stop talking while ribosomes involve protein.
The professor began his lecture, but at first was interrupted. "The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell -stop talking- while ribosomes involve protein.
400
Identify the alliterations The wide wading whale ended up becoming a beached Beluga. Volunteers has to push the whale into deep enough water to save it.
What is www, bbb
400
Bobby tried to tell me that tacos and better (than/then) pizza. (There, Their, They're) are many reasons why pizza is better. I like tacos (to, too), but the variety that pizza offers is amazing.
What is Than, There, too
400
Identify the rhyme scheme of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)
What is AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD
400
This writer gained fame with his 1855 masterpiece, Leaves of Grass. His legendary work and association with Camden, New Jersey led to a bridge with his namesake. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry and O' Captain O' Captain are two of his most famous poems.
who is Walt Whitman
500
Using this Thesis statement outline a paper The government's three branches are equally important; the legislative, judicial, and executive branches all work together to balance power.
Intro: General information about balance of power/ government branches 1,2,3 Legislative, judicial, executive Conclusion: List examples restate balance of power
500
Did your brother and your cousin Brad intend to exchange (his, their) tickets?
What is their
500
List all Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives Bill Watterson lived a quiet life. His insightful and beautiful comic, Calvin and Hobbes, has delighted readers since the first strip.
Verbs: lived, delighted Nouns: life, comic,readers, strip Adjectives: quiet, insightful, beautiful, first
500
Identify the correct modifier The trumpet player knew that rival marching band was (better/best) in the nation.
What is Best
500
This man, whose face is on the $10, was the author of the federalist papers, created the modern banking system in the U.S., and recently had a musical written with his namesake.
What is Alexander Hamilton
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