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100

She was as cool as an ice cube in Antartica.

Simile

100

A conversation between characters

Dialogue

100

Rhyme

The repetition of sounds at the end of words

100

This category is worth absolutely no percentage of your final grade.

Homework

(yeah we don't do that here)

100

congrats

free points. yippee!!

200

When I picked up my legally distinct unbranded iced coffee.

Run-on sentence

200

The order and format of a passage or poem

Structure

200

Diction

Choice of words

200

Quiz#1, Question#8

Unauthorized phone usage

200

August 4th

LAST DAY TO SUBMIT WORK & RETAKE/MAKE UP QUIZZES!!!!

300

The flowers danced in the light breeze.

Personification

300

A surprising contradiction or contrast

Irony

300

Plot

The sequence of events in a story

300

Russian Blue is a kind of...

Ragdoll cat breed. 

(Fun fact, I googled it last night and, um, no it isn't. sorry. I misremembered lol)

300

A common contemporary exclamation of joy

yippee!!!!

400

He was the star of the show--the sun in the sky.

Metaphor

400

Something that is used to represent a particular idea

Symbol

400

Stanza

A group of lines in a poem

400

A horrible no-good terrible bad day

A four-hour train ride where nothing went right

400

How many eyes does our beautiful protagonist have?

four

500

And that's why you should always look before you sit.

Moral (of the story)

500

A specific moment in a story when something begins to change

Turning point

500
Fragment

A sentence that is missing any of the following three elements: Complete thought, subject, verb

500

The title of the passage by the hypothetical author whose purpose is to neutrally state the good points of both types of animals, but has a clear bias towards one of the two animals.

"Cats and Dogs"

(NOT "Cats vs. Dogs")

500

What are the names of Mr. Skye's brother's three pets?

Pudding, Mango, & July