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100

What piece of punctuation can be used to instruct a reader to take a pause or breath?

Comma

100
What is a comparison using the words like or as?
Simile
100
What are the three things that establish setting?
Time, location, and circumstance
100
What other animal can purr like a cat?
An elephant
200

Name the piece of punctuation that is used to create dramatic pauses in informal writing.

Dash.

200
What literary term is used here? Hopefully her home has heat.
Alliteration
200
A character who remains unchanged throughout the entire story is called:
Static
200
Due to a water spout in England that sucked up much of the countryside's bodies of water, what living thing was seen to rain down afterward?
Frogs
300

What piece of punctuation should be used before the conjunctions 'however' and 'therefore'?

A semicolon

300
What literary term is used here? The door protested as it opened slowly.
Personification
300
The main character who experiences change over the course of a story is called:
Protagonist
300
How many times larger than the planet Earth is Jupiter's giant red spot?
3 times bigger than the Earth
400

An apostrophe is used to indicate possession EXCEPT in what specific case?

The word "it's", which always means "it is"

400
What literary term is used here? A police officer gets a speeding ticket.
Situational irony
400
Name the six types of conflict.
person vs person, person vs self, person vs society, person vs nature, person vs supernatural, and person vs technology.
400
Babe Ruth kept the leaf of what fruit or vegetable under his baseball cap to keep cool while he played?
A cabbage leaf
500
What is the name for a piece of punctuation that informs readers there is about to be a list or explanation?

A colon.

500
What literary term is used here? While the children were telling ghost stories, it was thundering and lightning outside.
Pathetic Fallacy
500
What is the main idea of a story, or the message that the author is trying to get across?
Theme
500
HIPPOPOTOMONSTROSESQUIPPEDALIOPHOBIA is the fear of what?
The fear of long words