When two independent clauses are joined together without proper punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
100
The sequence of events in story.
What is plot?
100
The end mark found in most sentences that gives the longest pause.
What is a period?
100
The first president of the United States?
Who is George Washington?
200
The sentence at the beginning of a paragraph that announces the paragraph's idea.
What is a topic sentence?
200
A sentence that is lacking either a subject or verb, thus creating an incomplete thought.
What is a fragment?
200
The time, place, and environment in which a story takes place.
What is setting?
200
Name the coordinating conjunctions.
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
200
The artist of Mona Lisa?
Who is Leonardo DaVinci?
300
The diction, or word choice, used in an academic essay.
What is middle to formal?
300
Contraction for it is or it has
What is it's?
300
The person who tells a story.
Who is the narrator?
300
The punctuation used with the coordinating conjunctions.
What is a comma?
300
What is the world's largest ocean?
What is the Pacific?
400
A statement typically found in either the introduction or conclusion that announces the main idea of the essay.
What is the thesis statement?
400
The improper use of a comma.
What is a comma splice?
400
In a story, a hint at something to come.
What is foreshadowing?
400
The punctuation used to separate two independent clauses with similar ideas.
What is a semicolon?
400
Name the capital of Idaho.
What is Boise?
500
Sentences found between body paragraphs that move the reader from one idea to another.
What is a transition sentence?
500
A noun or pronoun — often with modifiers — set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify it.
What is an appositive?
500
The main point, or moral, that the author is trying to convey in a story.
What is theme?
500
On the board, correctly punctuate this sentence:
The moons rays shone feebly on the path, and I heard the insects chirpings and whistlings.
What is: The moon's rays shone feebly on the path, and I heard the insects' chirpings and whistlings.
500
Define empathy.
What is being able to "put yourself in someone else's shoes" so that you understand and feel what they are experiencing. (Or something similar to this answer.)