Vocab
Literature
Movies
Gramr/Punct
Misc.
100

The time and place in which a story takes place.

What is setting?

100

This person wrote the Harry Potter series.

Who is J.K. Rowling?

100

This Best Picture winning film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, and is based on the true story of Solomon Northup.

What is 12 Years A Slave?

100

Used to end a dramatic sentence or statement.

What is an exclamation point?

100

This is the Parkway uniform.

What is a black shirt, and jeans?

200

The third part of plot; the moment of greatest tension or excitement in a story.

What is the climax?

200

This illustration of plot has 5 points.

What is Freytag's Pyramid? (Plot Pyramid).

(Name the points.)

200

This superhero blockbuster became the highest grossing movie of all time in 2019. (It has since lost that title).

What is Avengers: Endgame?

200

Describes a noun or a pronoun. It tells what kind, how many, or which one.

What is an adjective?

200

Finish the line: If you give a mouse a cookie...

What is "... he will ask you for some milk."

300

Hints or suggestions that tell you what is going to happen next in a story.

What is foreshadowing?

300

This playwright and poet wrote Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet.

Who is William Shakespeare?

300
She is the only Black woman to win Best Actress at the Oscars.

Who is Halle Berry?

300

Use "there", "they're" & "their" in one sentence.

[use your board]

300

These are the four keys to transition.

What are attendance, grades, behavior and counseling? 

400

A sentence made up of two simple sentences joined together.

What is a compound sentence?

400

In this story a woman is confined to a room where she develops and obsession with the walls.

What is "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

400

This was the first movie Ice Cube wrote.

What is Friday?

400

Used to indicate direct speech, i.e. exact words spoken.

What are quotation marks? ("")

400

This tennis player has won more Grand Slam titles than anyone in history.

Who is Serena Williams?

500

The standard writing found in fiction and non fiction, usually arranged in paragraphs and complete sentences.

What is prose?

500

These are the sections in a poem.

What are Stanzas?

500

This horror film is about a man who will appear after hearing his name said 5 times in a mirror.

What is Candyman?

500

Used to separate two sentences that are related, or the clauses in a sentence.

What is a semi-colon? (;)

500

This person is Mr. Johnson's favorite actor.

Who is Chadwick Boseman?