Grammar
Life Sentences
All Archetypes of Things
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American Timeline
100
A punctuation mark that indicates a pause, sets aside extraneous information, and makes lists.
What is a comma
100
A sentence that makes a statement.
What is a declarative sentence?
100
They’re easy to root for but often come from a hard upbringing.
Who is a hero?
100
The point in the plot of greatest intensity, suspense, or interest.
What is the climax?
100
The religious people, one of which was Jonathan Edwards, that wrote during the Enlightenment.
Who are the Puritans?
200
A punctuation mark that’s like rolling through a stop sign. Less than a period-more than a comma
What is a semicolon
200
a sentence that asks a question.
What is an interrogative sentence?
200
The eternal battle between two opposing forces.
What is Good vs. Evil?
200
The time and place that the story takes place in.
What is the setting?
200
He wrote "The Raven" as well as many other stories of the macabre.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
300
A word that can modify an adverb, a verb, or an adjective
What is an adverb?
300
A group of words that feature a verb and its subject
What is a clause?
300
The search for some special item or person that is the only hope to save a wasted land.
What is a quest?
300
A bold exaggeration to add emphasis to a statement
What is a hyperbole?
300
The literary movement that told it like it was with no idealization of people or places.
What is Realism?
400
A group of two or more words that function together but don’t have a subject or predicate
What is a phrase?
400
A clause that does not express a complete thought and, therefore, cannot stand on its own.
What is a dependent/subordinate clause?
400
The role model in a story who helps the protagonist in some profound way.
What is a mentor?
400
Saying one thing but clearly meaning another.
What is verbal irony or sarcasm?
400
The author of “The Old Man and the Sea” as well as an alcoholic hunter of big game
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
500
A phrase that modifies the noun or pronoun that comes immediately before it. You're a positive influence if you get this one.
What is an appositive?
500
A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses AND a subordinate clause
What is a compound-complex sentence?
500
The young protagonist who must endure some form of training and ceremony to complete their task.
What is an initiate?
500
The associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word.
What is connotation?
500
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel that shed light on slavery and is said to have helped start the Civil War.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
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