ENGLISH POTPOURRI
This is what the initials P.E.A.T. stand for when writing a paragraph.
What are point, evidence, analysis, and tie back?
I told myself to stay calm—stay calm when the screen froze, stay calm when the timer kept ticking, stay calm when nothing worked. What device is used in this example to create effect?
What is repetition?
In the short story Saturday Climbing, what activity have the father and daughter duo taken up together in order to spend quality time together?
What is rock climbing?
In math, we call them (brackets). In English, this is the term we use instead.
What are parentheses?
This is the number of planets in our solar system that have rings.
What is four: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
This is the term for the part of a paragraph or essay where the writer uses a word to indicate they are moving along from one main idea to the next.
What is a transition word?
The WiFi crashed on the day of the online literary test, so my teacher apologized for the minor inconvenience.
This is the term for a form of speech in which a lesser expression is used than what would be expected.
What is an understatement?
This is the devastating event that required Alice to receive the world's first successful brain transplant in "Mirror Image".
What is a car crash that injured her and killed her father?
This piece of punctuation is used to indicate ownership, or to replace missing letters in a word.
What is an apostrophe?
This famous metal landmark expands with heat, rising up to 15cm taller in the summer than it stands in the winter.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
This is the term for a writing error in which a comma is mistakenly used to join two independent clauses.
What is a comma splice?
The video she posted online was seriously funny. What is the term for descriptions like 'seriously funny' that contain two contradictory terms?
What is an oxymoron?
This is the country where the private school is located that the son attends in the short story "Simple Arithmetic", written in letters back and forth between father and son.
What is Switzerland?
The cat quietly crept across the room. What word in this sentence is an ADVERB?
What is 'quietly'?
This popular condiment (sauce) was originally sold in pill form to help cure diarrhea.
What is ketchup?
This is the literary theory lens that would focus on ways in which the writer's own real life experiences shape the plot and characters of the story.
What is the biographical lens?
In the movie Frozen, Hans reveals himself to the audience as a villain before Anna knows that he is evil. What is the term for situations where the audience has more information than the characters involved?
What is dramatic irony?
As a group, provide an example of a dynamic character from any of the short stories we studied this semester.
Answers will vary.
Wow! That movie was amazing. What part of speech is the word WOW?
What is an interjection?
This is the breed of dog that inspired Snoopy the cartoon dog.
What is a beagle?
Provide THREE page formatting rules according to MLA requirements.
Consistent legible font (ie size 12 Times New Roman), double spaced, headers, no title page, centered title, indented paragraphs, works cited page
She walked into class like Barbie entering the real world—confused, brave, and totally unbothered.
This sentence contains a simile, as well as what other literary device?
What is an allusion?
Name ONE of the handicaps Harrison Bergeron is forced to wear in order to help achieve fairness in his society.
He is covered in 300 pounds of metal. He is wearing huge earphones and big glasses meant to blind him and give him headaches. He is also wearing a red rubber nose and black caps over his teeth. His eyebrows are shaved off.
I wanted to watch the new movie, my friends decided to stay home instead. What is the term for the error in this sentence AND explain how it can be fixed.
What is a comma splice?
In a game of pool, this is the colour of the 5 ball.
What is orange?