Structure
Style
Mechanics
Vocab
Taking Chances
100

The time and place of a story

What is the setting?

100

Think/thought, go/went, say/said, good, bad, big, small

What are banned words?

100

We spell these instead of writing them as numerals.

What are numbers that can be written in one or two words?

100

To move with a smooth, continuous motion.

What is glide?

100

The outline made by picking notes from multiple source outlines.

What is a fused outline?
200

Problem, want, or need in a story

What is the conflict?

200

This can only have 2-5 words.

What is a VSS?

200

This is how a person is referenced in writing the third time his/her name is mentioned.  

What is by last name only?

200

Immediately

What is instantly?

200

In academic writing, this word shortening method cannot be used.

What are contractions?

300

The event that leads to the conflict being solved.

What is the climax?

300

This is placed after a [4] opener.

What is a comma?

300

When used with quotations, commas and periods go here in relation to the end of quotation marks.  

What is inside?

300

To invent from existing principles or ideas. 

What is devise?

300

Introduction paragraphs include these three things.

What are an attention getter, background info, and paragraph topics?

400

These are four ways we can grab a reader's attention.

What are: a question, a vss, a quote, or a fact?

400

A [5] opener begins with one of these words.

What is: when, where, while, as, since, if, although, or because?

400

We capitalize direction words (north, south, east, west) in this situation.

What is when they refer to a region or proper name?

400

To examine something very carefully.

What is scrutinize?

400

New, original, and advanced. (vocab word)

What is innovative?

500

These three things must be in a conclusion paragraph.

What are the topics, the most significant and why, and words repeated in a title.

500

This remains when we take a who/which clause out of a sentence.

What is an independent clause (or complete sentence)?

500

We hyphenate ages in this situation.

What is when used in front of a noun?

500

Eagerly seeking knowledge

What is inquisitively?

500

This phrase always ends with a noun.

What is a prepositional phrase?