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The problem or struggle the main character faces in a story.
What is the conflict?
100
States the main point of a body paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
100
List all of the nouns in the following sentence:

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes."

What are voyage, discovery, lands, eyes?

(Quotation by Marcel Proust)

100
This famous historical figure asks, “et tu, Brute?” in a play by Shakespeare. (Hint: He also crossed the Rubicon).
Who is Julius Caesar?

(and you, Brutus?)

100
When he first began writing at the age of 14.
What is a fragment?
200
The series of events in a story.
What is the plot?
200
The first thing that should appear in your conclusion.
What is a restatement of your thesis?
200
What part of speech is “to entertain” acting like in this sentence: “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
What is a noun (an infinitive - verb acting like a noun)? 

(Quotation by Aristotle)

200
In the famous saying, “Don’t count your chickens ______.” (Bonus for what type of figurative language this is)
What is "before they are hatched.” (Idiom)?
200
Writing demands energy it requires focus.
What is a run-on?
300
The voice in which a story is told (can be first, second, or third person.
What is point of view?
300
Words that connect ideas and help your essay to flow.
What are transition words?
300

The subject and the verb in this sentence:

“The cure for boredom is curiosity"
What is Subject = cure and Verb = is?

(Quotation by Ellen Parr) 

300
This famous author’s real name is Samuel Clemens.
Who is Mark Twain?
300
Make sure to set aside time for writing.
What is a sentence?
400
A tangible (concrete) object is used to represent something abstract such as freedom or love.
What is symbolism?
400
Sometimes used in narratives, this is the term for conversations between characters.
What is dialogue?
400

Yourself is this part of speech in this sentence:

“Be yourself; everybody else is already taken."
What is a pronoun?

(Quotation by Oscar Wilde)

400
This famous literary detective is known for saying, “Elementary, my dear Watson” (even though he never actually said this).  Bonus points for the author of these detective stories.
Who is Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)?
400

He read and wrote poems, a few years later he started writing short stories.

What is a run-on?
500
The opposite of what is expected happens or the stated and intended meaning of something is different. (Examples: sarcasm, a police station is robbed, “Unnaturally, [Papa Doc] has died of natural causes.”)
What is irony?
500
This is the name for an informative essay.
What is an expository essay?
500

List the two helping verbs in the following sentence:

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who can not read.” 
What are does and can?


(Quotation by Mark Twain)

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This famous American writer is credited not just with writing noteworthy and often spine-chilling poems and stories but also with the first modern detective story.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
500
Although writing was not the career that he once thought he would pursue and find success with.
What is a fragment?