Grammar
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Summaries, Settings, and an Author
Poetry and Prose
Picture This
100
Correct or incorrect?
The dog is wagging it's tail.
Incorrect
100
Explain what is meant by "sensory detail" in writing
providing descriptions that describe the five senses: sight, sound, touch, etc.
100
Diagram this sentence:
Open the door!
100
This is a story about a young Jewish girl who went into hiding with her family to escape the Nazis.
What is The Diary of Anne Frank?
100
Who wrote these lines:
"A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Shakespeare
100
On a plot map, this part of the story introduces the characters, setting, and main conflict.
Exposition
200
Sentence or fragment?
Over the river and through the woods.
fragment
200
Which writing technique is shown below?
Timothy told the truth.
alliteration
200
Decode the Latin:
Cor ad cor
heart to heart
200
This play commences with a ghostly apparition on the rampart of a castle.
Hamlet
200
In poetry, what is a group of lines separated with a space called?
"stanza"
200
ID the character in this picture
Ghost of Christmas Present
300
ID parts of speech for each word:
External wounds and internal wounds are painful.
Adj noun conj adj noun linking verb adjective
300
This point of view uses "they, he, her" language and demonstrates knowledge of ALL of the characters.
Third person omniscient
300
You know you are reading this type of perspective when the author uses "I," "me," "my" as the voice for the narrator of the story.
What is first person perspective?
300
From which story is this line?
Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
Romeo and Juliet
300
What has 14 lines and a set rhyme scheme?
Sonnet
300
Name the female protagonist pictured here (first and last name:
Madeline Usher
400
Diagram this sentence:
The librarian in the red shirt hid the candy under the table.
400
Which technique is used below?
He feels really mean.
Assonance
400
The book titled, "The Giver," takes place in this type of imperfect society.
What is a dystopia?
400
Who said this line, and in which play?
A pair of Star-crossed lovers take their life..."
the "Chorus" from Romeo and Juliet
400
Which sub-genre of the Romantic era focuses on creepy, dark tales of horror?
Gothic
400
Which book features this setting?
A Christmas Carol
500
ID all adverbs that you can find:
Afterward, she almost ran nine miles, quickly running out of breath.
afterward almost quickly
500
Name two conflicts in "Touching Spirit Bear"
person vs self
person vs society
person vs person, etc.
500
The author of "Maus"
Art Spiegelman
500
City in which the Globe theatre was/is located.
London
500
Who wrote "The Fall of the House of Usher?"
Edgar Allen Poe
500
Act and Scene?
Act 2, Scene 2
600
ID the types of prepositional phrases found here:
In the morning, the teacher in the blue suit will make 300 copies.
in the morning adverbial, defining when "will make"
in the blue suit adjectival, defining which teacher
600
Name the character, book, and author:
Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.
Scrooge; A Christmas Carol; Charles Dickens
600
Translate from Latin:
Credo in unum Deum, Patrum Omnipotentum
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty
600
Who is the author of Touching Spirit Bear?
Ben Mikaelsen
600
From which book is the following except, and who is the author?
IT WAS ON a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs
Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
600
In which country are we here?
Denmark