Punctuation
This is used at the end of a sentence to terminate the thought or statement being made.
What is a period?
This useful tool comes in handy when trying to organize a character's appearance, traits, personality, and backstory.
What is a character info sheet?
This 1600s writer created approximately 1,700 words for the English language.
Who is Shakespeare?
These are used to space a story, passage, or narrative out, separating sentences into larger groups.
What are paragraphs?
Each team has the chance to receive points. You must persuade the other teams as to why you should receive the points. Majority rules.
Majority rules bro
Other languages, primarily Spanish, use two of these in a sentence to express unfamiliarity. One is typically upside at the beginning of the sentence.
What is a question mark?
When world building, these are explanations as to how magic, for example, functions within the world.
The first written language, presumably created sometime around 3,400 BC in Mesopotamia.
What is cuneiform?
This word is a synonym for a story or piece of writing, typically used by English teachers trying to be fancy.
What is prose?
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Typically, two of these are found in a paragraph, though you may occasionally see multiple or only one.
What are quotation marks?
Contrary to commonly used illustrations, a story can consist of multiple of this plot element.
What is a climax?
Early versions of poetry consisted of these, which typically describe heroic feats or battles and are considerable in length.
What are epics?
A set of 13 numbers used to identify a book within an official catalog or database
What is an ISBN?
What is the title of your president's book?
Correct responses: I don't know, no clue, she won't tell us, or dunno.
Which punctuation mark should be used in the blank?
We were planning on going to the store__ we ended up at the hospital instead.
What is a semicolon?
An extended section of a book/novel where additional scenes, primarily those which come after the main story line, are written.
What is an epilogue?
In 1873, Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule patented this device that significantly advanced the efficiency of writing.
What is the typewriter?
The process of formatting a book for publication.
What is typesetting?
Dance for your points.
President will judge and grade accordingly.
This is used to connect ranges of numbers, dates, or periods, representing the words "to" or "through".
What is an en dash?
The most important part of a character. It gives a story a reason to exist and acts as a springboard for the actions, plot, and ideas expressed.
Cambridge University Press is considered to be the oldest publishing company still in operation. It was founded in the year ____.
What is 1954? (within 20 years)
A grammatical structure in which the subject of a sentence is performing the action, rather than receiving it. Book writing tends to favor this structure due to its efficiency at being direct and engaging-- contrary to its passive counterpart
What is active voice?
This animal, Chlamydoselachus anguineus, is considered a living fossil due to its primitive physical traits. Founded by Ludwig Döderlein in 1879. It has amphistyly and a quasi-cartilaginous notochord.
What is a frilled shark?