Reading
Writing
Grammar & Mechanics
Literary Genres
General Trivia
100

The person telling the story

What is Narrator?

100

This is the most important thought about the topic

What is Main Idea?

100

The topic of a sentence

What is Subject?

100

The story of a person's life written by himself or herself

What is autobiography?

100

What is your favorite book?

What is...

200

The five basic elements of a story (plot, setting, characters, point of view, and conflict)

What is Story Elements?
200

This comes after the topic sentence, making up the body of a paragraph. They give details to develop and support the main idea of the paragraph

What is Supporting Details?

200

A grammatical element consisting of one or more sounds or letters attached to the beginning or end of a word, base, or phrase to change its meaning

What is Affix?

200

A work of literature designed to be performed in front of an audience, also called a play

What is Drama?

200

The first Air Jordan sneakers released in (year)

What is 1984?

300

The central character in the story, novel, or

play

What is Protagonist?

300

The first stage of the writing process, typically followed by drafting, revision, editing and publishing

What is Prewriting?

300

Coordinating conjunctions with the acronym "FANBOYS" stands for

What is 'for,' 'and,' 'nor,' 'but,' 'or,' 'yet,' 'so?'

300

The class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration

What is Fiction?

300

The Barbadian icon Rihanna’s real name

What is Robin Fenty?

400

The opponent or rival of the hero in the story

What is Antagonist?

400

The _____ statement is a one-sentence statement that expresses the main idea of the essay. This statement is an arguable statement that communicates the author's stance on a topic to the reader.

What is Thesis?

400
The eight ___ _ ____ in the English language: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

What is Parts of Speech?

400

An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more , sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.

What is Stanza?

400

The "www" in a website address bar stands for

What is World Wide Web?

500

The message or meaning in a story, poem, or play

What is Theme?

500

_______ writing intends to convince readers to believe in an idea and to do an action.

What is Persuasive?

500

The marks used in writing such as, commas, periods, question marks, exclamation points, semicolons, colons, dashes, hyphens, brackets, braces, parentheses, apostrophes, ellipsis, and quotation marks.

What is Punctuation?

500

The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work

What is Biography?

500

The letter "B" in Ms' B's name is short for

What is Bernstine