Literacy
Discourse
Grammar
MLA
Fun Facts
100

This is the definition of literacy. 

Competence or knowledge in a certain area. 

100

This is the definition of discourse.

Written or spoken communication. 

100
This punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses.

Semicolon

100

A header includes these things.

Your name, the instructor's name, the course, and the date submitted.

100

This U.S. president appears on the $50 bill.

Ulysses S. Grant

200

This is the MLA formatting requirement for the font and spacing of your essay. 

12 pt., double spaced, Times New Roman, 1" margins

200

This is the definition of ethnography. 

The study of people. 

200

This part of speech describes the action of the subject (not a verb).

Predicate

200

MLA requires this type of indention for citations.

Hanging

200

This is the year we landed on the moon. 

1969

300

This is the definition of rhetoric. 

Effective persuasive speech

300

This is a key process when drafting your essay, where you check for mistakes in spelling, grammar, punctuation, and overall clarity.

Editing

300

What POV should be avoided in academic writing?

First and Second

300

MLA stands for this. 

Modern Language Association

300

This novella follows two migrant workers during the Great Depression

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

400

Your literacy narrative needed to contain two things. Your thesis and a _____.

Moment

400

When a group uses unique language to communicate, they are using ____.

Specialized language. 

400

This part of speech connects words, phrases, or clauses, such as "and," "but," and "or."

Conjunction

400

If no author is available for a source, MLA suggests using this as the first element in the citation.

The title of the source. 

400

A group of crows is called this.

A murder

500

This is the definition for "rhetoric"

(We talked about it during the Literacy Narrative)

Effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

500

These are the five things, which are mentioned on the slides, that you should observe your group doing. 

What is the group doing? 

What does the group say? 

What does the group write? 

How do you know who the leaders are? 

How do interactions vary among members?

500

These are the three articles in English.


a/an/the 

500
This is the edition that MLA currently uses. 


Hint: It's higher than five. 
Ninth
500

This is the only letter that doesn't appear in any US state name. 

Q