School
What is the name for the person with the highest academic ranking in a graduating class?
What part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea?
Noun
What do we call the person or force working against the protagonist?
Antagonist
What is the name of the school in Harry Potter?
Hogwarts
You waited until 11:57 pm to begin an assignment due at 11:59 pm. What skill did you fail to practice?
Time Management
The wind whispered through the trees is an example of what?
Personification
What word do we use to refer to the time and place of a story?
Setting
What do you call a class you choose rather than one required for graduation?
Elective
bright, stylish, sleepy, ancient and enormous are examples of what part of speech?
Adjectives
What is a conclusion you reach using evidence plus what you already know?
What novel features a pig named Wilbur and a spider named Charlotte?
Charlotte's Web
What young wizard has a lightning bolt shaped scar?
Harry Potter
He runs like the wind is an example of what?
Simile
What is another name for the main character of a story?
Protagonist
What does ACT stand for?
American College Testing
What is wrong with this sentence.
Your going to be late to school.
your should be you're
What do we call the life lesson or moral of the story?
Which company created and operates the Kindle Store?
Amazon
What green character tries to steal Christmas?
I've told you a million times is an example of what?
hyperbole
Name the part of an essay's introduction that is designed to get the reader's attention?
Hook
What do you call money awarded to help a student pay for college that usually does not have to be repaid?
scholarship
What is wrong with this sentence?
Me and Sarah went to the game, and she got in free.
It should be "Sarah and I went to the game."
When an author gives hints about something that will happen later, what technique is being used?
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
You copied and pasted an entire paragraph from a website and put your name on the paper. What academic offense have you committed?
Plagiarism
The classroom was a zoo is an example of what?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things is known as ...
Personification
What is the name of the degree most students earn after approximately four years of college?
Bachelor's Degree
What punctuation mark is used to connect two closely related independent clauses?
semicolon
______ if the author's attitude. _______ is the feeling created for the reader.
What is the best-selling book of all time?
The bible
In argumentative writing, this is the opposing viewpoint that disagrees with the writer's main claim.
Counterclaim
What literary device occurs when an object, color, or character represents a larger idea?
Symbolism
Using the same letter at the beginning of consecutive words is known as ...
Alliteration