Grammar
Name the sentence error as seen below:
"Although the committee reviewed every application before the deadline."
What is a sentence fragment?
This specific, arguable statement communicates an essay’s central position.
What is a thesis?
Referring to someone’s weakness as their “Achilles’ heel” is an example of this device.
What is an allusion?
This event disrupts the existing situation and sets the central conflict in motion.
What is the inciting incident?
This has hands and a face but cannot clap nor smile.
What is a clock?
The musical, West Side Story, transforms the conflict between the Montagues and Capulets from this Shakespearean tragedy.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Name the sentence error as seen below:
"The argument appears convincing, its evidence is unreliable."
What is a comma splice?
In essay writing, a ________ quote refers to textual evidence that appears abruptly without context, introduction, or grammatical integration.
What is dropped?
This literary device uses humor, irony, sarcasm, or ridicule to expose and criticize human vices, follies, abuses, or societal shortcomings.
This secondary storyline develops alongside the central plot and may reinforce or contrast with it.
What is a subplot?
This can be written with words and served in years.
What is a sentence?
This unexpectedly sinister word describes a group of crows.
What is a murder?
This controversial punctuation mark appears before and or or in a list of three or more items.
Hint: two words
What is the Oxford comma?
A Works Cited list is featured at the end of an essay while __-____ _________ must appear throughout the body of an essay for individual pieces of textual evidence.
What are in-text citations?
The following quote uses this type of repetition.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
What is anaphora?
A sudden "aha!" moment when a character experiences a profound, life-changing realization or clarity about themselves, another person, or the world
What is epiphany?
This begins with E, ends with E, and contains one letter.
What is an envelope?
This ten-letter word can be typed using only the top row of a QWERTY keyboard.
What is typewriter?
Name the sentence error as seen below:
"After the accident yesterday, Amy drove very carefully she vowed to obey the speed limit."
What is a run-on sentence?
MLA stands for ...
What is Modern Language Association?
When a sentence continues beyond the end of a poetic line without punctuation or a complete pause. See example below:
the back wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow lie
cinders
in which shine
the broken
pieces of a green
bottle
What is enjambment?
What you could call a storyteller who turns out to be less credible/trustworthy
Hint: 2 words
What is an unreliable narrator?
This has a mouth but cannot eat; it runs constantly but has no legs.
What is a river?
A word, phrase, sentence, or number that reads the same forward and backward is called a ________________.
ex: radar; Mr. Owl ate my metal worm; 2002
What is a palindrome?
"The students had almost finished their presentations when the bell rang."
The word "almost" in the above sentence is this part of speech.
What is an adverb?
This type of essay requires you to combine ideas or evidence from multiple texts to develop a larger conclusion.
Hint: It starts with 's'
What is synthesis?
A violent storm that intensifies as a character’s emotional breakdown worsens demonstrates this specific subtype of personification.
What is pathetic fallacy?
A ___-______ narrative structurepresents events outside chronological order, often using flashbacks, flash-forwards, or shifts in time.
What is non-linear?
Forward, I am too much for you to bear alone; backward, I am not. What am I?
What is a ton?
(ton → not)
This is the only number whose English name has its letters in alphabetical order.
What is forty?