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Figurative language: “The alarm clock screamed at me to wake up.”

What is personification?

100
How would you cite this in text (in your essay)? "The only way out is up."- The Ledge, pg. xi Authors: Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan
"The only way out is up" (Davidson and Vaughan xi).
100
This mode of punctuation is used between two complete clauses without a coordinating conjunction.
What is semicolon?
100

This is a clear, debatable statement that expresses the writer’s main position.

What is a thesis statement?

100

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Who is Bad Bunny?

200

Figurative language: “He opened the email and felt Pandora’s box creak wide.”

What is allusion?

200
Find the error: "I had no regular teacher," (Douglass 25).
No comma after "teacher."
200
Find the error: I always agree with there ideas.
Wrong form of "their"
200

This structure explains why something happens and what results from it and this structure organizes events in the order they happened.

What is CAUSE and EFFECT and CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER?

200

"I have studied for my exam, and I feel confident about it."

A) Simple (1 Ind.) 

B) Compound (2+ Ind.) 

C) Complex (1+ Dep., 1 Ind.) 

D) Compound-complex (1+ Dep., 2+ Ind.)

What is B) Compound?

300

Figurative language: “The cafeteria pizza could double as a hockey puck.”

What is hyperbole?

300
Cite this: "I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years." Frederick Douglass, Learning to Read, pg. 25
"I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years" (Douglass 25).
300

Find the error: "Why should I eat healthy and exercise?," Phillip asked.

No comma after the question mark.

300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Find the error: He writes, "I often thought myself a beast" (Douglass 27). He continues, "After a long, tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write" (Douglass 29).

Do not write the author's name twice if quoted more than once in a row. Just the page number. IE: (29) the second time not (Douglass 29)

300
Novel and book titles should be...
What is italicized?
400

Denotation and connotation defined. 

What is the exact dictionary meaning of words (denotation) and the ideas and feelings associated with a word (connotation)?

400

This is the order that you put your sources on a works cited. 

What is alphabetical order?

400

The Y in FANBOYS

What is "yet"?

400

Parallel Structure: "In his novel 1984, George Orwell describes a dystopian London in the hands of a totalitarian government that is paranoid, watchful, and mercilessly oppresses its citizens."

Fix this if it is not parallel. Leave it the same if it is. 

What is "In his novel 1984, George Orwell describes a dystopian London in the hands of a totalitarian government that is paranoid, watchful, and mercilessly oppressive"? 

400

Classify the logical fallacy used: Don't feel bad about serving your children that sweet fruit punch with high fructose corn syrup in it. It's derived from real corn, so it must not cause the same health problems as completely artificial sweeteners.

A) Circular reasoning (claim is supported by claim itself)

B) False Dilemma 

c) Appeal to nature (the assumption that natural things are always good)

What is C) appeal to nature?

500

Rewrite the following so that it has negative connotations: Margot is known to be quite assertive.

What is Margot is quite pushy (etc.)? 

500

When quoted material ends with a question mark or an exclamation point, this is where that end punctuation must be.

What is inside the quotation marks, before the citation information?

500

"I hate swimming, water always gets in my nose" is an example of this punctuation error

What is a comma splice? (Will accept run-on sentence as well.)

500

Give an example of a sentence that uses a semi-colon.

Independent clause; independent clause.

500

A word that is spelled the same forwards and back called. 

What is a Palindrome?