Syntax
This type of sentence is one independent clause
Simple sentence
What did the wife say the husband's skin looked like when he changed?
A worm's skin
This would typically be the inciting incident in a mystery.
The crime
Mariska Hargitay portrays Olivia Benson on this long-running cop show.
Law and Order: SVU
What is a soccer field called?
A pitch
This type of sentence involves constructing a sentence so the subject comes before the predicate
A natural order sentence
Where did the wife think her husband got his "problem" from?
His father
A claim or evidence that one was elsewhere when an act is alleged to have taken place.
Alibi
Archie and the gang become entangled in some dark mysteries.
Riverdale
What team in baseball gets the advantage of the first at-bat?
The visiting team
This type of sentence features two or more independent clauses
Compound sentence
Who killed the husband in the end?
His sister
A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.
Flashback
Benedict Cumberbatch first gained fame in the U.S. playing this famous detective.
Sherlock Holmes
What do you call it when a bowler makes three strikes in a row?
Turkey
A sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to crate a desired effect (ex: Something to consider)
Rhetorical fragment
The author of "The Wife's Story"
Ursula K. LeGuin
Detective, cozy, and police procedural are examples of...
Subgenres of mysteries
Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez currently star in this popular mystery series on Hulu.
Only Murders in the Building
Who was the first NBA player to test positive for COVID-19?
Rudy Gobert
Deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses (ex: I came, I saw, I conquered)
Asyndeton
Where, specifically, did the husband and wife first meet?
Near Spring Lake
The author of And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Titus Welliver stars as this detective on an Amazon series of the same name.
Bosch
What is the only team in the NFL to neither host nor play in the Super Bowl?
Cleveland