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Miscellaneous
100

What is the name of the two wheeled form of transportation that may be used by students?

What is b-i-c-y-c-l-e??

100

The term used to define that attention getting beginning of an essay

What is the hook?
100

The term given to the element when the initial sounds of a word, beginning either with a consonant or a vowel, are repeated in close succession

What is alliteration?

100

The character who opposes the hero or creates the conflict

What is the antagonist?

100

The protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird?

Who is Scout?

200

This commonly misspelled word has a few different spellings with various meanings. This version means belonging to someone.

What is t-h-e-i-r?

200

The name given to this universal idea statement that addresses the main focus you want to emphasize in your paper

What is a thesis statement?

200

The name of the literary device that is something in itself, and it also suggests something deeper.

What is a symbol?

200

An account of a person's life written by that person.

What is an autobiography?

200

The items collected by students in Whitwell, TN to represent the number of Jewish people killed during the Holocaust.

What are paper clips?

300

What is the spelling of the head of our school?

What is p-r-i-n-c-i-p-a-l?

300

The part of the writing process where a student will make additions or deletions of content ideas to make the paper flow better and have better voice

What is revising?

300

To identify this, you label lines with letters, such as "ABAB" or "AABB".

What is rhyme scheme?

300

The moment the conflict hits its peak in a literary work.

What is the climax?

300

"I'm so hungry, I could eat a hippo" is an example of this type of figurative language.

What is a hyperbole?

400

The correct spelling of the month that falls between January and March

What is F-e-b-r-u-a-r-y?

400

The word used to address an opposing viewpoint when writing an argumentative essay. 

What is a counter-argument?

400

The type of poem that does not rhyme and has no clear structure.

What is free verse?
400

A conversational passage in a narrative or play used to advance the plot or develop the characters.

What is dialogue?

400
The names of Sodapop's brothers in The Outsiders?

Who are Sodapop and Darry?

500

The spelling of a sound that is used as a mode of figurative language, such as "ca-caw" or "whoosh"

What is an o-n-o-m-a-t-o-p-o-e-i-a?


500

What "TDA" stands for.

Text-dependent Analysis

500

A reference, within a literary work, to another work of fiction, a film, a piece of art, or even a real event.

What is allusion?
500

The perspective from which a story is told; may be first person, third person, or less commonly, second person.

What is point-of-view?

500

"It's raining cats and dogs" is an example of this.

What is an idiom?