Story Structure
The literary element that represents a struggle between opposing forces.
What is the conflict?
What is a verb?
The way a book title should be formatted.
What is in italics?
The word that shows possession between their, there, or they're.
What is their?
Where the thesis statement should be in an essay.
Where is the last sentence of the introduction?
A story's central message or insight about life.
What is the theme?
A part of speech that modifies a noun.
The way shorter works' titles should be formatted (songs, articles, web pages, poems, short stories).
What is in quotation marks (" ")?
The contraction version of its vs it's.
What is "it's"?
Where a re-worded thesis statement should go in the conclusion paragraph.
Where is the first sentence?
The narrative perspective that allows the reader to know the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is third person omniscient?
A clause that can also be considered a fragment.
What is a dependent clause?
The name for an in-text citation where the page number and sometimes author or source title name is present at the end of a piece of evidence.
The rule for using "a" vs "an" in a sentence.
What is to use "an" before nouns that start with vowels and "a" before words that start with consonants.
The function of transition words and phrases in an essay.
What is to connect ideas smoothly?
A literary device that interrupts current events to show past events.
What is a flashback?
The part of speech for "slowly" in the sentence "The student slowly put their phone away."
What is an adverb?
The correct way to parenthetically cite a quote from John Smith on page 32.
What is (Smith 32). ?
"To cheer up the hallway, Rachel embellished her children’s bedroom doors. She painted colorful circus pictures on her son’s door and pasted seashells on her daughter’s."
Embellished means
a. replaced c. decorated
b. erased d. recognized
What is c. decorated?
The writing element that is meant to capture an audience's attention.
What is a hook?
A narrative technique that shows a character's personality through their actions.
What is indirect characterization?
A punctuation mark that can connect two independent clauses that are related in thought.
What is a semi colon (;)?
What you should cite instead if your source has no author.
What is the title of your source?
"Nina makes a big fuss about every little thing her children do, whether it’s harmful or innocuous."
Innocuous means
a. loud c. dangerous
b. stubborn d. harmless
What is d. harmless?
The formatting that we use in English classes.
What is MLA?