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Grammar
100
This is a specific statement that is not broad or vague and not a factual statement that is the main idea of a piece of writing. 

What is a thesis?   

100

This is the basic organization of an essay.

What is the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion? 

100

This appeal focuses on persuading the audience using emotion.

What is pathos?

100

True or false: Providing commentary means to summarize what the textual evidence is about but in your own words. 

What is false? 

100

Identify the proper noun(s) in the following sentence:

Sarah repeated the story her dad told her about Grandpa's Medal of Honor. 


What are Sarah, Grandpa's, Medal, and Honor?

200

True or false: Commentary is explaining why the piece of evidence supports the writer's claim. 

What is true?

200

The following sentence is an example of what figurative language:

"...a morning is/ a new sheet of paper/ for you to write on." 

What is metaphor? 

200

This fallacies is when one person attacks the character of another rather than attacking the person's argument. 

What is ad hominem? 

200

The types of audience that a speaker or writer may have to confront. 

What are hostile, friendly, and indifferent? 

200

Identify the verb(s) and verb phrases in the following sentence:

Open your hearts to us. We have wronged no one, we have corrupted no one, we have cheated no one. 


What are "Open"; "have wronged"; "have corrupted"; and "have cheated"? 

300

This is the basic structure or organization of a narrative. 

What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?

300

In literature, the technique of giving hints or clues that suggest or prepare for events that occur later in a work. 

What is foreshadowing? 

300

This character is described as royalty and majestic. His word is authority. He is also one of the major characters in John Steinbeck's novella "Of Mice and Men". 

Who is Slim?

300

This is the protagonist in the book "Just Mercy". 

Who is Bryan Stevenson? 

300

Identify the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:

The children ran over the bridge and across the pasture. 

What are "over the bridge" and "across the pasture"? 

400

These are the two types of conflicts.

What are internal and external conflict?

400
This is a figure of speech that is an exaggeration.

What is hyperbole?

400

This is what Jay Gatsby is looking at as he reaches out with a trembling hand. 

What is a green light?

400

These are the things or ideas Robert Browning described about England in his poem "Home Thoughts, From Abroad". 

What are Spring months, flowers, plants, trees, and fields? 

400

Tell me what kind of sentence this is:

Phoenix is the capital of Arizona. 

What is a declarative sentence? 


500

A senior in high school can be categorized as lazy, unmotivated, experienced, and a leader. Is this connotation or denotation? 

What is connotation? 

500

This is the reason the government banned books in the novel "Fahrenheit 451".

What is government feared books because they brought confusion and discontent?

500

This what Mr. Burns calls the brainstorming part or coming up with content to say in your speech or your essay. 

What is invention?

500

The name of Henry the V's speech he said in William Shakespeare's play "Henry V". 

What is St. Crispin's Day Speech?

500

Identify the correlative conjunction in the following sentence:

Either Bob or I will take them to the doctor. 


What are "Either" and "or"?