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100

What type of character is well-developed and complex, often with internal conflicts?

Answer: What is a round character?

100

What is the universal message or lesson of a story?

Answer: What is the theme?

100

Which genre includes magic, monsters, or supernatural elements?

Answer: What is fantasy?

100

Which of the following is a clue that the source is NOT reliable?

  1. date of last update is given

  2. page contains lots of advertising

  3. author is listed

  4. URL ends in .gov

page contains lots of advertising

100

Who voiced the character Gru from the animated movie "Despicable Me"?

Steve Carrell

200

Which character type undergoes significant internal change?

Answer: What is a dynamic character?

200

What do we call a secondary plotline that runs alongside the main one?

Answer: What is a subplot?

200

Which genre includes advanced technology and futuristic themes?

Answer: What is historical fiction?

200

What is the pronoun in this sentence?


"He went to the grocery store in Rome"

"He"

200

What is the official score of a forfeited major league baseball game?

9-0

300

Which character does not change throughout the story?

Answer: What is a static character?

300

What is the difference between theme and main idea?

 Answer: What is theme is a lesson and main idea is what the story is about?

300

What is the main focus of romance stories?

Answer: What is love or emotional tension?

300

What is logos, pathos, and Ethos?

Pathos- emotional appeal

Logos- Logical appeal

Ethos- Ethical appeal

300

Which freezes faster: hot or cold water?

Hot Water

400

Who is the main character trying to achieve a goal?

Answer: What is the protagonist?

400

What is it called when an aspect of a character leads them to make mistakes?

Answer: What is a character flaw?

400

Which genre is based on exaggerating historical events and characters?

Answer: What is historical fiction?

400

Always begin a direct quote with a ______

Capital letter
400

What occasion corresponds with the longest day of the year? (most hours of sun)

Summer Solstice

500

Who is the force or character opposing the protagonist?

Answer: What is the antagonist?

500

This is the most intense and exciting part of a story, often a turning point for the main character.

What is the climax?

500

Which genre would a biography belong to?

Answer: What is nonfiction?

500

What is an idiom?

    An idiom is a commonly used expression whose meaning does not relate to the literal meaning of its words.


            Let's paint the town red.

(Let's have a good time in town.)

500

What was the first animal to ever be cloned?

Sheep

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