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Grammar
Animal Farm
Fiction Elements
Short Stories
Potpourri
100
This is the punctuaion mark that ends interrogative sentences.
What is a question mark?
100
This is the name of the farmer in Animal Farm.
What is Mr. Jones?
100
This the the main problem in the story.
What is the conflict?
100
This is the name of the man who slept for 20 years.
What is Rip VanWinkle?
100
What is the number one activity that builds synaptic bridges?
What is reading?
200
This piece of punctuation is used to separate independent clauses that are closely related.
What is a semicolon?
200
This is the type of animal that Old Major is.
What is a pig?
200
This is the name of an event that intensifies the conflict.
What is a complication?
200
This is the murder weapon used in the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter."
What is a lamb leg?
200
This is the author of Animal Farm.
Who is George Orwell?
300
This is how a writer indicates the title of a short story.
What are quotation marks?
300
This is type of government symbolized by Animalism.
What is communism?
300
This is the type of character that fights against the main character.
What is the antagonist?
300
This is the main character of the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
Who is Icabod Crane?
300
This type of punctuation is used to show a sudden, jarring change of thought or to add reinforcement to a statement.
What is a dash?
400
This is what you call a sentence missing either a subject or verb.
What is a sentence fragment?
400
This is the name of the special place that animals go to when they die.
What is Sugarcandy Mountain?
400
This term means a moment of insight, when a character is suddenly illuminated by truth.
What is epiphany?
400
This is the title of the story about the old lady who writes letters to spread rumors around her small town.
What is "The Possibility of Evil"?
400
This is the correct term for a female hero.
What is a heroine?
500
This is what you call two independent clauses joined with only a comma.
What is comma splice?
500
These are the names of four of the five communist states.
What is North Korea, China, N. Vietnam, and Cuba?
500
This Latin term means "in the middle of things," when a story begins in the middle of the action.
What is in medias res?
500
This is the author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip VanWinkle."
Who is Washington Irving?
500
This is what George Mallory said when asked why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest.
What is "Because it's there"?