Show:
Legend, Epics and Myths
Persuasion
Drama and Short Story
Biography and Expository
Miscellanious
100
_______ was a mighty man, born with a hammer right in his hand.
Who is John Henry?
100
This emotional appeal makes people feel bad for those less fortunate.
What is appeal to pity?
100
In "The Seventh Grade", Victor does this to impress Teressa.
What is pretend to speak French?
100
Expository articles do this.
What is explain?
100
The turning point of the story. Highest moment of tension.
What is the climax?
200
Beowulf had this profession.
What is monster killer?
200
This technique says that you should do something when everyone else does it.
What is bandwagon?
200
Being careful not to turn on those around you was a major theme of what drama we read?
What is The Monsters are Due on Maple Street?
200
The Noble Experiment was a biography on this person
Who is Jackie Robinson
200
This is something that belonged to Mr. Maddox that students frequently lost this year.
What are pencils, pens, markers, restroom passes, dry erase markers, erasers, paper and who knows what else.
300
Prometheus punished in this manner.
What is being chained to a mountain while birds pick at his liver?
300
This word means that you favor one thing over another.
What is bias?
300
In the story "The Two Brothers", the brothers see a stone that tells them to do this...
What is cross the river, go into the woods, confront a bear and go up the mountain.
300
An autobiography must be about this person.
Whoever the author is.
300
This organizational pattern is used to show how one thing leads to another.
What is cause and effect?
400
Icarus and _____ made wings and flew off an island.
Who is Daedalus?
400
An argument is made up of these three things.
What are claims, reasons and evidence.
400
In "How to Talk to Girls at Parties", Enn sees this in a vision when a girl tells him a poem.
What is a glass city being destroyed by a giant wave.
400
The owner of the Dodgers knew a player who was so upset at racism that he tried to do this to himself.
What is scrape the black off his hands.
400
This point of view uses words like (he, them, they) and does NOT know every character's thoughts and feelings.
What is Third Person Limited?
500
All myths feature gods, supernatural beings and do this...
What is teach about nature or human behavior?
500
You do this when you anticipate an opponents' argument and beat it beforehand.
What is a counterargument?
500
This is a name of a character from "Monsters Are Due on Maple Street.
Many names allowed...
500
These words are bold letters that introduce a new section in a text.
What is a subheading?
500
This organizational pattern is frequently used in newspapers and begins with the detail readers need to know most.
What is order of importance?