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Grammar Galore
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100

A person or thing who is involved in something in which they don't belong. 

What is Interloper?

100

This literary device is commonly articulated via the fight-card method. 

What is conflict?

100

This three-letter acronym makes it easier to recognize the steps to proper quote integration. 

What is ICE?

100

This acronym is often used as an insult, but its actual use is to introduce a subordinate or dependent clause.

What is an AAAWWUBBIS?

100

This four-letter word is the most disgusting and vague term to be etched upon your formal writing. 

What is very?

200

An adjective that describes ill-will or spite. 

What is malevolent? 

200

This stage of the plot is often referred to as the point of no return. 

What is the climax?

200

These three categories are both positions on the Richter scale and categories for effective evidence.  

What are sleepers, rumblers, and earth-changers? 

200

This group of words does not include both a subject and a predicate but serves to modify or describe other elements within the sentence. 

What is a phrase? 

200

This form of question is deemed improper because it is said to infer its answer. 

What is a leading question? 

300

Someone who is not well-adjusted would be considered this.

What is maladjusted?

300

This five-letter acronym helps remember common examples of indirect characterization. 

What is STEAL?

300

This writing no-no deals with improper quote integration. 

What is drop-quoting?

300

This error occurs when a group of words without both a subject and a predicate occurs. 

What is a fragment? 

300

Ernest Hemingway was injured in this global conflict. 

What is WWI?

400

This is a word used to describe the feeling of opposition against something or someone. 

What is averse?

400
Due to its intense detail, this literary technique is often credited with making fiction appear more realistic. 

What is verisimilitude? 

400
As a rule of thumb, quotes should be chopped down to no more than this many words.

What is ten to fifteen?

400

This is one of the few sentence forms which does not require both a subject and a verb. 

What is a command? 

400

This American author is known as the "master of macabre".

Who is Edgar Allan Poe?

500
A word to describe the reluctant acceptance of something. 

What is acquiescence? 

500

This form of irony is often referred to as horror-film irony. 

What is dramatic irony?

500

When writing academic prose, you are expected to use this specific POV. 

What is the third person? 

500
This hotly debated grammatical rule is still a point of contention among English teachers. 

What is the Oxford comma?

500

Ernest Hemingway was born in this Chicago suburb.

What is Oak Park, Illinois.