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Vocabulary
Writing
The Things They Carried
Grammar and Punctuation
100
To beautify with fanciful details.
What is to embellish?
100
This is the first step of the writing process.
What is brainstorming? (prewriting or planning acceptable)
100
I am the author of the novel.
Who is Tim O'Brien?
100
This lies at the end of any sentence.
What is a punctuation mark?
200
To delight, to thrill, or give pleasure.
What is to enrapture?
200
These help make paragraphs flow better.
What are transitions?
200
VC stands for this
What is Viet Cong?
200
This describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
300
To surrender or give up doing something.
What is to relinquish?
300
This is when you make actual corrections to an essay.
What is editing?
300
Where the soldiers are stationed.
Where is Vietnam?
300
Used to identify a phrase or words spoken by a character.
What are quotation marks?
400
A beginner or novice
What is a tyro?
400
The middle portion of a five paragraph essay.
What is the body?
400
I was zapped while zipping.
Who is Ted Lavender?
400
The repetition of consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
500
A peculiar characteristic or quirk.
What is an idiosyncrasy?
500
Words which suggest the sound of which they are describing.
What is an onomatopoeia?
500
A freedom bird.
What is a plane or helicopter sent to the war zone?
500
The comparison of two things using like or as.
What is a simile?