A Raisin in the Sun
Convenience Store Woman
Words of the Day
Poetry
Writing Rules
100

The location of the play.

What is Chicago?

100

The writer of this novella

Who is Sayaka Murata?

100

A small fight or argument

What is a tiff?

100

This is the writer of "To the Shy Kid"

Who is Richard Braithwaite?

100

where the thesis statement goes

what is at the end of the introduction?

200

Mama's most prized possession. 

What is the plant?

200

Keiko's age

What is 36 years old? 

200

Someone who seeks pleasure more than anything else.

What is a hedonist?

200

This poem speeds up with momentum as the speaker's rage builds.

What is "To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire"?

200

what a topic sentence should be

what is an analytical claim that directly relates to the thesis statement?

300

The last thing Beneatha wants to be (yet Asagai calls her this!)

What is an assimilationist?

300

A philosophical thought experiment which prompts one to think about the replacement of our cells and what makes up our identity.

What is Theseus' Ship? 

300

the two meanings of "facade"

What is the face of a building and a mask?

300

This is the main idea conveyed in "I Wrote a Good Omelet"

Love is disorienting and can make life confusing 

300

the word for weaving your quotes into your own language 

what is embedding? 

400

The place where the Younger family plans to move.

What is Clyborne Park?

400

This is the drink Keiko has at the diner with Shiraha

What is hot water?

400

The part of speech of "infuriate"

What is a verb?

400

The subject of "The Work of Artifice" 

What is sexism?

400

the components of a proper MLA internal citations

what is a parenthesis, authors name, page number, and a period outside the parenthesis? (Bulawayo, 3). 

500

"There is always something left to ____. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned_____."

What is "love" and "nothing"?
500

"A Convenience Store is a world of ______"

What is "sound"?

500

the part of speech of "petrichor"

What is a noun?

500

This is a literary movement from the early 20th century which embraces nonsense, irrationality, and intuition. It uses nonsense words.

What is dada?

500

"the road was crossed by the chicken" is an example of what kind of syntax? (try not to overuse this syntax in your writing!!!)

the passive voice