Writing Skills
You use these to set off a quote in your writing
What are quotation marks?
This artist recently won "Album of the Year" at the Grammy's
Who is Beyonce?
This planet is known as "The Red Planet"
What is Mars?
In which year did the United States of America declare independence?
What is 1776?
This dead playwright wrote hits such as "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Romeo and Juliet"
Who is Shakespeare?
A clause that does not express a complete thought on its own
Famed basketball player LaMelo Ball is known for being this tall
What is 6'7"?
This organelle is known as the powerhouse of the cell
What is the mitochondria?
Who is John Hancock?
This artist from the Netherlands, who lived in poverty when alive, is known for his missing ear
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
A clause that can be omitted from a sentence without changing the meaning
What is nonessential?
This mini animal celebrity with a chunky frame captured hearts with her fiery, sassy personality
Who is Moo Deng?
This is the largest ocean on Earth
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This is the largest country by land mass
What is Russia?
Who is Bad Bunny?
These are used in a sentence to connect two different OR similar ideas
What are transition words?
This sport debuted in the 2024 Summer Olympics and went viral after Australia's questionable entrant, Raygun
What is breakdancing?
This is an organelle that is found in plant cells, but not animal
What is a chloroplast?
This president is the only one to have served more than two terms
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Originally a member of N*SYNC, this solo singer has won 9 Grammy Awards with hit songs like "Cry Me a River"
Who is Justin Timberlake?
In CER writing, this segment involves using concrete details to assert a logical claim
What is evidence?
This movie set in Idaho includes two socially awkward 16-year-olds and a pet llama named Tina
What is Napoleon Dynamite?
This gas is the most abundant in Earth's atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
This is the line located at 0 degrees latitude, dividing the globe into halves
What is the Equator?
This American athlete has won more Olympic gold medals than anyone in history
Who is Michael Phelps?