Grammar
What is the past simple tense of "write"?
What is "wrote"? ("I wrote two essays this weekend!")
Define the following word: "apprentice".
What is "a person who is learning a trade or skill while working alongside someone who has mastered it."
A ___________ is a scene that you show in your story in real-time, but which happened in the past.
What is a "flashback"?
My sons are tornadoes ripping through the house.
The opposite of a dystopia is a _____________.
What is "utopia"?
Insert commas to correct the sentence: "July 22 2010 was a momentous day in his life."
What is "July 22, 1959, was a momentous day in his life"?
Define the following word: "hushed".
What is "quiet and serious"?
_____________ is when a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story.
What is "foreshadowing"?
When his arm broke, it sounded like a gunshot.
What is a simile?
What is "antonym"?
Insert commas to correct the following sentence: "Glamour the women's fashion magazine recently incorporated with Charm another fashion journal."
What is: "Glamour, the women's fashion magazine, recently incorporated with Charm, another fashion journal"?
A story most commonly has dialogue and ___________.
What is "narration"? (Will also accept: "a narrator").
"I couldn't have murdered him, as I was at school at the time! This is my __________."
What is "alibi"?
The halls sighed loudly as the students left for summer break.
What is personification?
______________ is the use of reoccurring objects/actions/words to signify qualities or ideas by giving them meanings that are different from their literal sense.
What is "symbolism"?
The nine Parts of Speech are:
What is noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, article, interjection, preposition, and conjunction?
These types of stories are usually very short, often under 1,000 words in length.
What is an "flash fiction"?
A false clue that throws the detective off track.
What is a "red herring"?
His foot is the size of a ship!
What is hyperbole?
When a character is the only one speaking for an extended period of time, this is called a __________.
What is a "monologue"?
When we include a ___________ ___________ in a sentence, we use two commas to seperate it from the rest of the sentence.
What is a "non-essential clause"?
This type of poetry is inspired and based off of visual pieces of art, such as sculptures or paintings.
What is "ekphrastic poetry"?
This type of narrator knows the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all the characters.
What is an "omniscient narrator"?
The bees buzzed loudly when the boy busted their hive.
What is alliteration AND onomatopoeia?
The six types of conflict are:
What is person vs technology, person vs person, person vs society, person vs nature, person vs supernatural, and person vs self?