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Identify the pronoun and its antecedent: Deborah is reading about Charles Dickens. He is a famous British author.
What is he and Charles Dickens.
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Identify the theme: In his sophomore year of high school, Michael Jordan tried out for the varsity basketball team at Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina. But at five feet and eleven inches tall, the coach believed that Jordan was too short to play at that level, so Jordan was cut from the team. Jordan didn’t let this obstacle defeat him. In fact, it pushed him to work even harder. He trained vigorously and grew another four inches the following summer. When he finally made the varsity squad, Jordan averaged 25 points a game and went on to become one of the greatest basketball players in history.
What is hard work pays off.
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When discussing or writing about poetry, you don't call them sentences or paragraphs . . . what do you call them?
What are lines and stanzas.
100
What is setting? Give an example from a story we've read
What is refers to the time and place in which a story takes place.
100
A genre in nonfiction which is a story of someone else's life.
What is a biography.
200
Identify the pronoun. Is it correct or incorrect? Hopefully someone will bring their baseball bat to gym class.
What is their. Correction: His/Her
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Identify the theme: Tammy and Sammy were both students in Mr. Morton’s reading class. Mr. Morton wasn’t too strict about deadlines, and Sammy took advantage of that. He did all of his homework in his other classes but never bothered to complete Mr. Morton’s reading assignments, figuring that he could complete them later. Tammy, on the other hand, completed each assignment Mr. Morton assigned the night that he assigned it. She had to stay up a little later, but she didn’t want to get a penalty for turning in her reading work late. Tammy knew reading was a core subject and that she had to keep “C” average for the entire year or she would have to go to summer school. When the end of the quarter came, Tammy and Sammy had both planned on going to the Enchanted Castle amusement park, but Mr. Morton called Sammy’s mother, and she grounded Sammy until he turned in all of his work. That weekend was horrible for Sammy. He stayed up until 2:00 AM each night and still couldn’t complete all of the assignments. The whole while, Tammy had a great time eating pizza at Enchanted Castle, watching movies late at night, and enjoying her weekend free of stress and pressure. At the end of the quarter, Sammy was lucky to squeak by with a “C” minus in reading while Tammy earned an “A.”
Any reasonable answer accepted.
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Identify the simile: I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
What is "as a cloud."
200
What is a protagonist and antagonist?
What is the main character in the story and the character in conflict with the protagonist.
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A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.
What is autobiography.
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Identify the pronoun and its antecedent: Some schools were closed after Dickens wrote the book Nicholas Nickelby. They had been unfair to children.
What is they and school.
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Identify the theme: "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.
What is enjoy poetry for what it is. Don't make it difficult for yourself.
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Robert Frost writes, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both.” What does the word diverged mean? A. appeared B. curved C. split D. continued on
What is C
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What is alliteration? Give an example.
What is the repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence? Ex: Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August.
300
What are character traits? Give an example.
What are the qualities shown by a character, such as physical traits. Example: tall with brown eyes.
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Identify the indefinite pronoun. Identify the pronoun and state whether or not it is correct. Both Jake and John brought his extra gloves to baseball practice.
What is both and his. Incorrect. Pronoun should be their.
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Money Mark was born rich. He never had to work a day in his life and he got everything handed to him on a silver platter. When he was six, Money Mark wanted to go to a basketball game. His father paid the starting five of the Bulls and Celtics to play a private game of Nerf-ball in Money Mark’s bedroom. When Money Mark turned thirteen, he wanted to start a band. His father hired the Rolling Stones to play with him every Saturday at the family’s private concert hall, though his family was never there. By the time he was twenty-one, Money Mark was bored with life. He was surrounded by a bunch of possessions that he didn’t appreciate and Money Mark could find nothing new or exciting in his life. Despite his vast wealth, Money Mark never found happiness. Penny Petal was born poor. Her family hardly had anything to eat, but they loved each other. Penny Petal appreciated every thing she got. When she was six, her father walked her around the United Center before the Bulls played the Celtics. She was excited by the crazy fans and feeling in the air. She looked forward to the day that she could see a real game. When she was thirteen, she learned to play the buckets. She was an extremely talented musician, a natural percussionist, and everyone on the block loved the rhythms that poured from her palms. By the time she was twenty-one, Penny was a successful businesswoman. Now she had everything that she had ever dreamed of and she truly loved to share her wealth and happiness with her family who supported her through all of the hard times.
What is money doesn't buy happiness. You don't appreciate the things for which you don't work.
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What do you call the narrator of the poem?
What is a speaker.
400
What is foreshadowing?
What is an advanced hint of what is to come later in the story.
400
What does it mean when a word is italicized in a text? Give an example.
What is the word must be emphasized. Any reasonable answer accepted.
500
Think of a singular and indefinite pronoun. Use both in their own sentence.
Any reasonable answer accepted.
500
Identify the theme: "A Time To Talk" by Robert Frost When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.
What is no work is more important than a friend and slow down in life to enjoy the simple moments.
500
Write a short poem using the following: -Simile -Metaphor -Onomatopoeia -Enjambment -Imagery
Any reasonable poem accepted.
500
What is irony? Give an example.
What is the use of the words in such a way in which the intended meaning is completely opposite to their literal meaning. For example: The bread is soft as a stone.
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What is author's purpose? Give an example from a text we have read this year.
What is the writer's main reason for writing a text. Any reasonable answer accepted.