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Essay Writing
Poetry
Reading
100

What is the name of the two wheeled form of transportation for many students? (spell it on the board correctly!)

What is bicycle?

100
What is the term used to define that attention getting beginning of an essay?
What is a hook?
100
What is the term given to the element when the initial sounds of a word, beginning either with a consonant or a vowel, are repeated in close succession?
What is alliteration?
100
What is the character who opposes the hero or creates the conflict?
What is an antagonist?
200

What is the form of spelling for the possessive pronoun to show something belongs to them? (spell it on the board correctly!)

What is their?

200
What is the name given to this universal idea statement that addresses the main focus you want to emphasize in your paper?
What is a thesis statement?
200

What is the name of the literary device that is something in itself, and it also suggests or represents something deeper?

What is a symbol?

200

What is an account of a person's life written by that person?

What is autobiography?

300

What is the spelling for the head administrator of our school? (spell it on the board correctly!)

What is principal?

300

What is the first step in the writing process?

What is prewriting (or planning/brainstorming)?

300

What is the literary device often found in poetry where there extreme exaggeration is used. 

What is hyperbole?

300

What is a moment of great intensity in the plot of a literary work, generally bringing events to a head,  leading to the falling action and conclusion?

What is climax?

400

What is the correct spelling of the month that falls between January and March? (spell it on the board correctly!)

What is February?

400

What is the part of the writing process where a student will make additions or deletions of content ideas to make the paper flow better and have better voice?

What is revision or editing?

400

What literary device is used in the following sentence:

The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.

by Langston Hughes

What is alliteration? (also correct)

What is personification? (also correct_

400

What is a conversational passage in a narrative or play used to advance the plot or develop the characters?

What is dialogue?

500

What is the correct spelling of the word that defines the building on campus that holds all of our books? (spell it on the board correctly!)

What is library?

500

What is the part of writing where one's personal style or flavor is expressed?

What is voice?

500

DOUBLE JEAPORDY!

In prose, the writer used sentences and paragraphs to organize their ideas, whereas in poetry, the poet uses ________________ and ____________.

What are lines and stanzas?

500

What is the perspective from which a story is told; may be first person, third person, or less commonly, second person?

What is point-of-view?