This is an error in which a comma is separating two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
100
The main character's name (first and last together) is an example of this.
What is a palendrome?
100
This word means sad or lonely.
What is forlorn?
100
These are the five steps in the writing process.
What are prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing?
100
The following sentence is an example of this: I cannot wait for break my family and I are going to Disneland!
What is a run-on sentence?
200
These are the seven coordinating conjunctions.
What are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?
200
This is the author of Holes.
Who is Louis Sachar?
200
Doggedly means this.
What is in a stubborn manner?
200
These are some good ways to be an active reader.
What is collecting vocabulary, asking questions, marking interesting language, noting important passages, visualizing, and making connections?
200
When you make an educated guess based on clues from the text and your background knowledge, you are doing this.
What is making an inference?
300
These are the three ways to fix a run-on sentence.
What is making in two sentences, adding a coordinating conjunction, or adding a semicolon?
300
This is the name of Sam the Onion Man's beloved donkey.
Who is Mary Lou?
300
If you're acting a friendly, happy manner, you are acting this way.
What is amiably?
300
She flew at her brother in a rage, an angry bear woken up from her hiberbation. This is an example if this literary element.
What is metaphor?
300
"Dark They Were, and GOlden Eyed" was written by this author.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
400
Words that sound the same but are not spelled the same are called this.
What are homophones?
400
This is the bully at school who threw Stanley's notebook in the toilet.
Who is Derrick Dunne?
400
If you don't want to be obvious about something, you must do it like this.
What is subtly?
400
These are the six traits of writing.
What are ideas and content, organization, voice, sentence fluency, word choice, and mechanics?
400
Books that are written in the third person are written one of these two ways.
What are third person limited or third person omniscient?
500
A subordinating conjunction such as "because" or "when" does this to an independent clause.
What is makes it dependent?
500
This is the affliction of Trout Walker and Clyde Livingston.
What is an incurable foot fungus?
500
The M&Ms in my candy dish slowly disappeared; the amount of candy I had did this.
What is dwindled?
500
When Stanley is excited to go to Camp Green Lake because he's never been to camp before, but we know that Camp Green Lake is not a fun place to be, this is an example if this device.
What is dramatic irony?
500
These are the six elements of a story.
What are plot, character, setting, point of view, conflict, and theme?