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100
The time and place of action in a story (where and when).
What is the setting?
100
A comparison that does not use like or as.
What is a metaphor?
100
I can't wait to write my English exam I am really smart.
What is a run-on sentence?
100
The number of paragraphs in a series of paragraphs expressing an opinion (opinion essay).
5 paragraphs?
100
If you look at the numbers on my face, you won't find 13 any place.
What is a clock?
200
The events in a story.
What is plot?
200
The central source of tension and drama in a story.
What is conflict?
200
Since he was grumpy.
What is a sentence fragment?
200
In a news report, this paragraph includes the most important details.
What is the lead?
200
Pandas have this, but no other animal does.
What are baby pandas?
300
The main character in the story.
Who is the protagonist?
300
Giving human qualities to ideas and things.
What is personification?
300
He said, I love swimming.
What are missing quotation marks?
300
In a series of paragraphs expressing an opinion, each body paragraph should begin with this.
What is a transition word?
300
Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not.
What is a ton?
400
The character who opposes the main character in some way.
Who is the antagonist?
400
A comparison of two things (using like or as)
What is a simile?
400
Their going to the prom.
What is the wrong word? (Their should be they're)
400
The only part of a news report that can contain opinion.
What is a quotation?
400
This is a room that no one can enter.
What is a mushroom?
500
The main idea or message of the story.
What is the theme?
500
When the author gives hints or clues about actions to come.
What is foreshadowing?
500
Nobody want to go to the store.
What is a subject-verb agreement error?
500
Never include this when you are writing a main idea paragraph (summary).
What are your own ideas about the topic?
500
There are three men in a boat with four cigarettes but no matches. This is how they managed to smoke.
What is they threw one cigarette overboard and made the boat a cigarette lighter.