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This U.S. state is known as the Natural State.
What is Arkansas?
Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist of this dystopian trilogy.
What is The Hunger Games?
This term means the time and place of a story.
What is setting?
Choose the correctly punctuated sentence
A) Its raining.
B) It's raining.
What is B?
This term is the central idea or underlying message that a writer explores in a work
What is theme?
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This book by Angie Thomas begins when Starr witnesses her friend Khalil get shot by the police.
What is The Hate U Give?
Identify the point of view: "I walked into the room and saw him standing there."
What is first person?
Combine these two sentences with a semicolon:
She studied hard. She passed the test.
What is "She studied hard; she passed the test."?
This literary device gives human characteristics to non-human objects.
What is personification?
This number is the Roman numeral "L".
What is 50?
The character "Four" appears in this dystopian trilogy.
What is Divergent?
This paragraph in an argumentative essay addresses the opposing viewpoint.
What is the counterclaim/counterargument?
Name one transition word used in argumentative writing.
What is "however," "therefore," "in contrast," etc?
Explain what it means to make an inference while reading literature.
What is drawing a conclusion based on textual evidence and reasoning?
This 14-line poem format is often written in iambic pentameter.
What is a sonnet?
This author of The Fault in Our Stars is also known for Looking for Alaska.
Who is John Green.
Thinking of where the source comes from and by whom it was written is a way of determining what?
What is a credible source?
This is the term for a comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
What strategy can one use to help analyze and understand a work of literature?
What is annotation/annotate?
This punctuation mark is used to connect two independent clauses without a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
This is the name of the wizarding school Harry Potter attends.
What is Hogwarts?
In fiction, authors develop a theme, while in nonfiction, they focus on the ___ ____, a similar concept.
What is the main idea?
Identify the error in this sentence:
Each of the students have their homework.
What is subject-verb agreement: "has" instead of "have"?
What does the annotation strategy TPCASTT stand for?
What is
Title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title (again), and theme.