The Holocaust
Grammar/Mechanics
Figurative Language
Argumentative Writing
Characterization
100

In September 1919, a former amateur artist and Army veteran joined the German Workers' Party

Who is Adolf Hitler?

Who is Hitler?

100

The main two things needed to have a complete sentence or complete thought

What is a subject and predicate?

What is a subject and a verb?

100

It is raining cats and dogs

What is hyperbole?

100

Argument for an opinion

The point you want to prove

What is a claim?

100

An individual in a story

What is the character? 
200

German leaders signed this which forced Germany to agree to the shrinking of the armed forces, give up land, and pay large sums of money 

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

200

Tell what type of sentence is: 

Whenever we attend the St. Patrick's Day Parade.

What is a sentence fragment?

What is a fragment?


200

A comparison between two things that are not alike but are similar in one important way.  It does not use the word "like" or "as"

What is a metaphor?

200

Facts that support your argument

What is evidence?

200
A character who comes into conflict with the protagonist

What is the antagonist? 

300

A major historical event that occurred in 1929

What is the Great Depression?

300

Name the mistake in the sentence:

The rain has stopped, the trees are still wet. 

What is a comma splice? 

300

Writing that appeals to the senses.


The old red truck had rusted for years inside the big white barn.  

What is imagery?

300

Logic that connects the evidence to your argument

What is reason? 

300

A character who is summed up in just a few lines without many details about their beliefs, feelings, or behaviors

What is a flat character?

400
About how many Jews were murdered during the Holocaust

What is over six million?

What is over 6 million?


400

The essential verb or verb phrase that cannot be left out of the complete predicate

What is the Simple Predicate? 

400

I was walking home and I saw a dog on the side of the road.  I said to the dog, "Are you lost?" The dog answered, "Yes, I have been trying to find Russell Drive, can you help me?" This is an example of which figurative language

What is personification?

400

Another word for counterclaim

What is rebuttal? 

400
Wendy is a dynamic character in the play Peter Pan, because she learns to grow up, but Peter Pan is 
What is a static character? 
500

The largest concentration camp during the Holocaust 

What is Auschwitz?

500

A group of words that acts as a single part of speech

What is a phrase? 

500

Name all the figurative languages we have covered so far in class

What are simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and imagery?

500

Argumentative claims should use this literary device of provoking emotions

What is pathos? 

500

The process of describing a character through that character's thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue

What is indirect characterization? 

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