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The biggest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
The name of the author of The Giver.
Who is Lois Lowry?
This term refers to the underlying message or central idea of a text.
What is theme?
The maximum number of blocks that a player can hold in their inventory in 1 spot.
What is 64?
The minimum number of independent clauses within a compound-complex sentence.
What is two?
The process of breaking down the rock which is the Earth's surface.
What is erosion?
The genre to which The Giver belongs in which fictional communities highlight societal injustices.
What is dystopia?
The part of an essay that clearly states the main argument or point the writer will discuss.
What is the thesis statement?
This will happen if you put a skeleton into powdered snow.
Why will it turn into a Stray?
The acronym used to remember the seven coordinating conjunctions.
What is F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.?
This shape is a quadrilateral with 2 sets of parallel sides and the sides in each set are the same length.
What is a parallelogram?
The title of the office whose location community members often joke about its constantly changing location.
What is the Department of Bicycle Repair?
A literary device that involves exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
What Minecraft used to be called.
What is Cave Game?
A clause that begins with a subordinating conjunction and cannot stand on its own as a complete sentence.
What is a dependent clause?
A type of poem where the first letters of each line spell a word.
What is an acrostic poem?
The name of the previous Receiver-in-Training.
What is Rosemary?
This term describes a word that has the opposite meaning of another word.
What is an antonym?
The creator of Minecraft.
Who is Notch?
“After the ball rolled down the hill” is an example of this type of clause.
What is a dependent clause?
This was the purpose of the Colosseum in Rome.
What are gladiator fights, animal fights and executions?
The type of conflict in which a character is facing an internal struggle.
What is Individual vs. Self?
This punctuation mark is used to indicate possession or the omission of letters.
What is an apostrophe?
The year that Minecraft was released.
What is 2009?
The easiest way to identify a sentence’s type (simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex).
What is counting the number of clauses within the sentence?