Grammar and Conventions
Writing Style
Short Stories
Poetry
Miscellaneous
100

This punctuation mark seen here: " "

What are quotation marks

100
It is the main noun in a sentence.

What is a subject?

100

The turning point of a story.

What is the climax?

100

The acronym tool used to analyze poetry.

What is TPS-FASTT?

100

The part of the plot triangle in which the conflicts develop and characters deal with complications.

What is the rising action?

200

It is the pronoun that should be used in the sentence below:

Anna and _____ are going to the movies.

What is I?

200

It is the sentence error seen below:

Except when I'm singing.

What is a sentence fragment or incomplete sentence

Bonus 100: Make the sentence into a complete one.

200

The main character of a story.

What is a protagonist?

200

A poem paragraph.

What is a stanza?

200

The device seen in this example:

My shoes were as shiny as the stars.

What is a simile?

300

This grammatical error seen here: I like going to the movies, they are fun.

What is a comma splice?

300

The part of speech of this word: below

What is a preposition?

300

A type of irony in which the audience knows something one or more characters do not.

What is Dramatic Irony?

300

The vivid details in this part of Robert Frost's poems are an example of which poetic device?

He gives his harness bells a shake/To ask if there is some mistake./ The only other sound's the sweep/ of easy wind and downy flake.

What is imagery?

300
The person "Oh Captain! My Captain!" is about.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

It is the proper spelling of the misused word below:

I would like to go to your house over their.

What is T-H-E-R-E?

400

It is dead verb that finishes this sequence:

Do, Does, ________

What is did?

400

The type of device seen here:

I could eat a million things right now!

What is hyperbole?

400

Some examples are metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole - they are not literally meant.

What is figurative language?

400

In a Shakespearean Sonnet, the name of the rhythmical pattern of rhymed lines.

What is Iambic Pentameter?

500

It is the punctuation mark that joins two adjectives into one.

What is a hyphen?

500

It is the name of an -ing word that begins a sentence as seen here:

Hoping he was going to the right bus stop, he arrived 20 minutes early.

What is a Participial Phrase?

500
The term exemplified in the example below:


Fortunato's name meaning "fortunate."

What is Situational Irony?
500

In "Annabel Lee" one example might be: Loss of a loved one causes insanity.

What is a theme?

500

The words that should be capitalized in this sentence:

I know that disneyland opened on july 17, 1955.

What are Disneyland and July?