Uncle Anoosh carves one of these out of bread for young Marji.
What is a swan?
100
In Shari Wagner's poem, Simon Pokagon has an encounter with this person.
What is a farmer?
100
This type of punctuation can help correct a run-on sentence by combining the sentences without the use of a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
200
Her mama told her, "No tears. You're a big girl."
Who is Marjane Satrapi?
200
His nickname is Cocorico?
Who is Oscar?
200
Richard Rhodes is talking about the death of this animal when he explains, "And we would stand in a spread-out circle, at a respectful distance, tense with the drama of it, because we didn't want him to miss either."
What is a steer?
200
From "Foley's Pond": "We didn't know what he did those long days other than the _____, which didn't take more than a few hours."
What is "funeral"?
200
All book titles must be formatted in this kind of type.
What are Italics?
300
Guna from this story calls his mama "Amma."
What is "Lorry Raja"?
300
In this text, the narrator names Lulu, Jenny, Deanne, Teresa, Martha, Robin, Carolyn, April, Sue, and Jo Jo Leichty.
What is "Kissing"?
300
Annie Dillard relays a story about a man finding a weasel skull attached to the throat of this animal.
What is an eagle?
300
David Foster Wallace widely employs the use of these in his structure for "Consider the Lobster."
What are footnotes?
300
In MLA format, this is the title of the page that includes the bibliography.
What is a Works Cited page?
400
Her mama "reads the Forbes report, listens to Wall Street Week, converses daily with her stockbroker, reads all of Shirley MacLaine's books with ease."
Who is Amy Tan?
400
One of Marjane Satrapi's punk heroines had this rebellious name.
Who is Kim Wilde?
400
In "Lorry Raja," this is one of the foreign cars whose name Guna recites as it passes.
What is a Jaguar?
400
From "Black Box":
"_____ girls may invest the moon with a certain paternal promise."
What is "fatherless"?
400
The following sentence has an unclear _____. :
Eduardo and his friend used his boat to escape Cuba.
What is antecedent?
500
His mama pulled a gun on him.
Who is Kiese Laymon?
500
Kiese Laymon's best friend has this dangerous nickname.
What is Gunn?
500
In "Crazy Horse Boulevard," Sherman Alexie discusses looking up this extinct animal in the dictionary.
What is an aardwolf?
500
From "At the Particle Accelerator at Krasnoyarsk":
"And when it happens, there is no sound, no moan of discomfort or pleasure,/as the Brazilian couple smashes into the _____ couple and a red flashing light above the console begins flashing and rotating"
What is Filipino?
500
This is the two-word term for the problem exemplified in the following run-on sentence:
We are almost finished with this class, I am determined to win this game of Jeopardy.