__ __ is a struggle between a character and an outside force.
What is external conflict?
100
___ led the suitors into Hades on his winged messenger feet.
Who is Hermes?
100
___ fiction is a fictional story with a real setting and fictional characters.
What is historical fiction?
100
In some towns there was so many people that the lottery took two days.
Change the verb was to were.
100
The narrator of "The Cask of Amontillado" writes as if he were telling the story. Which point of view is used?
What is first person?
200
Athena's olive tree is an example of ____ as it is used as a weapon to harm Cyclops.
What is a symbol?
200
It is ___ that the Cyclops saying that he will eat Nohbdy last?
What is ironic?
200
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE tells the story of Oskar, who lost his father during ______?
What was the World Trade Center attack on 9/11?
200
The boy's stood aside, and the girls talked among themselves.
What is boys?
200
"Evil can be cloaked in something that seems to be good" is a message from the author, or the ___.
What is theme?
300
An ___ is a reference to a well-know person, place, event, literary work, or work of art.
What is an allusion?
300
The ___ is an ancient Greek epic by Homer that recounts the adventures of a hero.
What is the Odyssey?
300
THE BOOK THIEF took place during World War II and is narrated by ___.
Who is death?
300
The children assembled first isn't that so?
Add a comma after first.
300
___ is a when the author provides clues to later events in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
400
I drew the olive pole from the coals, lugging it near the Cyclops and used more natural force. The crew sprinted, lifted, and rammed into the crater eye." is an example of an epic simile or ____ simile.
What is a Homeric simile?
400
"Peerless Penelope" and "Heavenly Hermes" are examples of ___.
What is alliteration?
400
THE SNIPER takes place in ____, _____ and is based on the realistic Irish Civil War.
What is Dublin, Ireland?
400
Mr. Lee began talking again on the intercom but the students were not listening.
Add a comma after intercom.
400
Seared is defined as burned which is the dictionary definition of the word. This is an example of ___.
What is denotation?
500
Odysseus fits the traits of an ___ ___ because he came up with a plan to defeat the Cyclops.
What is an epic hero?
500
I am King ___, the father of the hero Odysseus. I have gotten old and worn from grief waiting for my son to return.
Who is Laertes?
500
General Zaroff fled Russia after the ___ ___ in his home country.
What is the Russian Revolution?
500
Because the students were finished with exams Mrs. Kieffer dismissed them.
Add a comma after exams.
500
The pierced ball hissed broiling is an example of ___.