Ancient World 1
Ancient World 2
Essay Writing
Writing Skill Review
100

In a Bible story, this man was asked to sacrifice his son to honor God. 

Who is Abraham?

100

This country is where Sekhmet slew many innocent and guilty humans.

What is Egypt?

100

A good narrative essay has a structure that looks like this.

What is a rollercoaster?

100

This skill involves adding detail at the beginning of a sentence followed by a comma.

What is a lead-in?

200

This ancient Greek philosopher was born in Athens and spent his time walking around asking people questions.

Who is Socrates?

200

Spartacus was a famous _______ who led a revolt against wealthy Romans.

What is a gladiator?

What is a slave?

200

This number is the typical number of paragraphs in essays.

What is five?

200

This skill involves adding detail at the end of a sentence, sometimes beginning with a comma.

What is an add-on?

300

This famous general would go on to become Emperor of France. He invaded Egypt in 1798.

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?

300

This famous Roman general conquered Gaul and would go on to end the Roman Republic.

Who is Julius Caesar?

300
Within the third body paragraph is this most exciting part of the story.

What is the climax?

300

This skill involves adding detail in the middle of a sentence surrounded on either side by parenthetical commas.

What is an add-in?

400

This god is the King of the Egyptian gods, creator of humanity, and the first pharaoh of Egypt.

Who is Ra?

400

This ancient artifact was discovered by accident several hundred years ago in Egypt. It was instrumental in assisting archaeologists decode the language of hieroglyphics.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

400

This is the name for essays that are stories.

What is a narrative essay?

400

The difference between these two sentences is the use of a(n) ______ verb in the second.

Sean slowly went to the Tokyu grocery store.

Sean slowly strolled to the Tokyu grocery store.


What is an active or descriptive verb?

500

This ancient Roman hero was the son of Jupiter.

Who is Hercules?

500

The Iliad is an ancient tale of a war between the Greeks and these people. The Greeks famously used a wooden horse to defeat them.

Who are the Trojans?

500

So far, we have practiced these three types of essays.

What are narrative, persuasive, category, one-paragraph, and five-paragraph essays?

500

"Sean hopped like a frog," is an example of this literary technique.

What is a simile?