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100

Spell the name of the two wheeled form of transportation used by many students.

What is bicycle?

100

What is the term used to define that attention getting beginning of an essay?

What is a hook or "grabber"?

100

The sitting U.S. president's airplane, Air Force One, is the most important symbol of the American government.

Is this a fact or an opinion? 

Opinion

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 it belongs to them?
What is their?
200

What is the name given to this central topic statement that addresses the main focus you want to emphasize in your paper? Hint: it goes in the intro paragraph

What is a thesis statement?

200

What type of sentence is this? Simple, compound or complex? 

I wanted to go to the movies, but my friends couldn't go.

Compound: two COMPLETE sentences stuck together with a comma + FANBOYS (coordinating conjunction)

200

What is the name of the literary device uses a physical object to represent 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?

What is principal?

300
What is the first step in the writing process?
What is prewriting?
300

Which of the following sentences is written in ACTIVE VOICE?

A) The suspect was last seen by witnesses outside the convenience store.

B) Witnesses last saw the suspect outside the convenience store.

B) Witnesses last saw the suspect outside the convenience store.

300

What is the name for the literary device that gives human-like qualities to non-human things? Example: The leaves danced in the wind. 

What is personification? 

300
What is a moment of great intensity in the plot of a literary work, generally bringing events to a head and leading to the conclusion?
What is climax?
400
What is the correct spelling of the month that falls between January and March?
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?
400
"When the shepherd's whistle releases her, she's off like an arrow running east." What literary device is used in this sentence?
What is simile?
400

Which phrase has a more positive connotation? 

A stingy person

A thrifty person

A cheap person

A thrifty person

400

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

Hint: What are the characters' spoken words called? 

What is dialogue?

500

What is the correct spelling of the day of the week that falls between Tuesday and Thursday?

Wednesday

500

Name 3 purposes an author could have for a piece of writing.

To persuade

To inform

To entertain

To describe

500
His words were a dagger stabbing at my heart. What literary device is used here?
What is metaphor? or, What is personification?
500
What is a reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event?
What is an allusion?
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?