Reading Comprehension
The six points of a plot structure.
What are exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement
The students in Mrs. Nakleh’s social studies class discussed how ______ would spend the vacation.
What is "they?"
The kind of conjunction present in the following sentence:
We will visit Washington, D.C., or Williamsburg, Virginia, in June.
What is coordinating?
Simple, Complete, Compound Subject
The italicized portion of the following sentence represents which kind of subject?
My grandmother lived in Poland as a girl.
What is complete subject?
Figurative language that makes a comparison between two things using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The main conflict type within "The Treasure of Lemon Brown."
What is external conflict?
The kind of conjunction present in the following sentence:
Neither Sasha nor her brother could locate the car.
What is correlative?
The number of prepositions in the following sentence.
The penguin that lives down the road, up the hill and to the left tried to swim across the street, but he couldn't.
What is four?
The verb phrase in the following sentence:
Any interested people should attend a stock car race.
What is "should attend?"
Figurative language that makes a comparison between two things without using "like" or "as."
What is metaphor?
The main conflict type found in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time.
What is internal conflict?
The kind of verb present in the following sentence:
This total is almost ten times the number of people in the country of Ireland today.
What is a linking verb?
The following contains which kind of action verb?
Robin finished early.
What is intransitive?
The word that uses the apostrophe incorrectly in the following sentence:
She’s not a teacher as so many other winner’s of the award have been.
What is "winner's"?
The following example from "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" is this kind of figurative language, "He reached the house just as another flash of lightning changed the night to day for an instant, then returned the graffiti-scarred building to the grim shadows."
What is hyperbole?
This point in the plot structure can be used to predict the climax later on.
What is inciting incident?
The following sentence contains which kind of appositive phrase?
Bangkok, which is the capital of Thailand, is an intriguing city.
What is non-essential/non-restrictive?
The following sentence contains this kind of subject complement:
One well-known Irish American was President John F. Kennedy.
What is predicate nominative?
The gerund in the following sentence is doing this kind of noun job.
I like eating healthful foods.
What is a direct object?
The following example of metaphor has what two effects on the development of the story, "Had them big eyes like you got. I used to call them moon eyes."?
What is imagery and characterization?
The scene in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time wherein Christopher is in his father's room and is going through his things is an example of this kind of characterization (from what we learn about his father).
What is indirect characterization?
The number of subject complements and and what kind of subject complement(s) present in the following sentence:
The puppy was frightened but friendly as the visitors arrived.
What is two and predicate adjective?
The following sentence contains a prepositional phrase that acts as this.
You can come to the party.
What is a prepositional adverb phrase?
The infinitive i the folliwing sentence is acting as this.
For some writers, it was easy to find the best setting.
What is an adverb?
The following from "The Most Dangerous Game" is an example of this kind of figurative language, "[...] then they were blotted out entirely by the night."
What is personification?