The Hunger Games
A Christmas Carol
Parts of Speech
Essay Structure
MLA Format
100

This District 12 girl who volunteers in the 74th annual Hunger Games.

Who is Katniss Everdeen?

100

This character is the main focus of A Christmas Carol.

Who is Ebenezer Scrooge?

100

This part of speech names a person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a noun?

100

This paragraph opens your essay and introduces the main idea.

What is the introduction?

100

In MLA format, this item appears first in your heading.

What is your name?


200

Katniss volunteers for the Games to protect this family member.

Who is Prim (Primrose Everdeen)?

200

This Victorian author wrote the novella.

Who is Charles Dickens?

200

This part of speech describes a noun or pronoun.

What is an adjective?

200

This sentence, found in the introduction, lays out the main points of your essay.

What is a thesis statement?

200

The correct font choice for MLA format is this widely-used serif typeface.

What is Times New Roman?

300

She wrote The Hunger Games trilogy.

Who is Suzanne Collins?

300

Scrooge is known for having this negative personality trait at the start of the story.

What is being greedy or cold-hearted?

300

In the sentence “She quickly ran,” this word is the adverb.

What is an adverb?

300

These paragraphs make up the middle portion of an essay.

What are the body paragraphs?

300

MLA format requires your entire paper, including the title, to be in this size font.

What is 12-point font?

400

This boy becomes Katniss’s fellow tribute in the arena.

Who is Peeta Mellark?

400

This is the total number of spirits who visit Scrooge.

What is four?

400

In “Oh, that’s wonderful!” the word Oh belongs to this expressive part of speech.

What is an interjection?

400

This final paragraph restates your thesis, summarizes your ideas, and leaves the reader with a final thought.

What is the conclusion?

400

Your heading belongs in this location on the page.

What is left-aligned at the top of the page?

500

One symbolic act Katniss performs that challenges the Capitol’s authority.

What is honoring Rue with flowers / threatening to eat the berries / hunting illegally?

500

This spirit appears as a jolly giant clothed in a green robe.

Who is the Ghost of Christmas Present?

500

Words like during, under, or beside belong to this part of speech.

What is a preposition?

500

This type of sentence begins each body paragraph and states its main idea.

What is a topic sentence?

500

This action happens at the start of every paragraph in MLA essays.

What is indenting?