Mean Ms. Furness made you mark up various texts to demonstrate your understanding of articles and poems. Identify the word that describes this process.
What is annotation?
100
A triangle with exactly two congruent sides
What is an isosceles triangle
100
Name the three Curtis brothers in alphabetical order.
Who are Darrell (Darry), Ponyboy and Sodapop?
100
Identify the figurative langauge device in the following sentence. The desk groaned when two students jumped into the same seat.
What is personification?
200
3r+5=23
What is 6
200
How many feet in one mile
What is 5,280 ft.
200
A triangle with no congruent sides
What is a scalene triangle
200
Place the following plot elements in the order that they traditionally appear in a story: rising action, resolution, climax & exposition.
What is, exposition, rising action, climax and resolution?
200
Recite the opening line of Robert Frost's poem, "The Road Not Taken."
What is, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood."
300
4r-9=27
What is 9
300
For every major action in literature, there is a corresponding result. Name the phrase or term that describes this phenomenon.
What is cause and effect?
300
A quadrilateral with four right angles
What is a rectangle
300
The first and last sentences of The Outsiders are the exact same. This tells us that the entire book is a __________________.
What is flashback?
300
Mean Ms. Furness made you mark up various texts to demonstrate your understanding of articles and poems. Identify the word that describes this process.
What is annotation?
400
3x+8=5x+6
What is 1
400
This man authored "Rikki-tikki tavi."
Who is Rudyard Kipling?
400
A quadrilateral with four congruent sides
What is a rhombus
400
Which country did the short story, "Rikki-tikki tavi" take place?
What is India?
400
Identify the two figurative language devices in the following verse:
"the swift sweet deer"
What are alliteration and assonance?
500
7x+11=10x-10
What is 7
500
How many millimeters in one and a half meters
What is 1,500 mm.
500
A quadrilateral with exactly one pair of parallel sides
What is a trapezoid
500
We read an adapted drama of Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Fall of the House of Usher." Identify the ailment of Roderick's sister, Madeline.
What is catalepsy?
500
Who am I? I included the following two lines of poetry in my poem: "Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd banish us, you know!"