Lines & Authors to Know
The line "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" comes from where?
A Tale of Two Cities
The date abbreviation A.D. comes ? the date and B.C. comes ? the date.
Before and after
In An Unfortunate Lily Maid Anne's distinctive physical feature is what?
her red hair
What ending punctuation do you use for a declarative sentence?
a period
What is the first step in the writing process?
Plan
The Randsom of Red Chief was written by whom?
O. Henry
The following social titles are always abbreviated when they appear before a name
Mr. Mrs. Dr.
A Tale of Two Cities happened during which time period?
The French Revolution
What is a verb phrase?
a main verb and its helping verbs
What is chronological order?
time order
The line "Don't give up all your romance" comes from where?
An Unfortunate Lily Maid
In nonscientific writing, spell out all numbers of....
one or two words
Men of Iron is set in what country?
England
Use commas to set off what kind of phrases?
Nonessential phrases
What three ways can you support your topic sentence?
reason, examples, incidents
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote what story?
The Pine-Tree Shillings
Two titles that may be abbreviated if used before a full name are...
Reverend and Honorable
In I am the Wind the little boy was allowed to do what when he got outside?
take his shoes off and go barefoot
Use a semicolon between independent clauses if you do not....
use a comma and conjunction
A summary should be what length in comparison to the original piece
one-third
The line to know from All Nature Sings is....
The Bible clearly teaches that nature reveals the glory of God.
When dividing words at the end of a line, do not divide after a what?
a single letter
According to All Nature Sings!, what declares that nature reveals the glory of God?
the Bible
List three things that should be italicized
book, newspaper, magazine, plays, works of art, ship, spacecraft, trains, aircraft
What does it mean for an outline to be parallel?
having the same grammatical structure. Using all words and phrases or all sentences, being consistent