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Grammar
Writing
Parts of Speech
Reading
Combo
100
An incomplete thought that may contain a subject and verb
What is a fragment or dependent clause?
100
The steps in the writing process
What are: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing?
100
Names a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a noun?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
100
List the coordinating conjunctions or FAN BOYS
What are: For And Nor But Or Yet So
200
Required at the end of a sentence
What is a punctuation mark?
200
This should be the first sentence in any essay
What is the appetizer, hook, or attention grabber?
200
Three questions that adjectives answer
What are: Which one? What kind? How many?
200
A comparison of two or more things using "like" or "as"
What is a similie?
200
The main character in a story who must overcome problems or obstacles
What is the protagonist?
300
Types of clauses in a complex sentence
What are one idependent clause and at least one dependent clause?
300
The three middle paragraphs in a 5 paragraph essay are called this
What is the body?
300
The four questions that adverbs answer
What are: How? When? Where? To what extent?
300
The main events that make up a story's action - what happens
What is the plot
300
A verb ending in -ing or -ed and acting like and adjective
What is a participle?
400
A clause that contains a subject and verb and is a complete thought
What is an independent clause?
400
The first sentence of each paragraph which tells what the paragraph is about
What is the topic sentence?
400
Three parts of speech modified by an adverb
What are verbs, adverbs, and adjectives?
400
The author's attitude, stated or implied, toward what he/she has written
What is tone?
400
The verb tense which uses the helping verb "will" and describes and action that has not yet taken place
What is the future tense?
500
The part of the sentence that follows an action verb and answers "to whom?" for "for what?" the action is performed
What is the indirect object?
500
Should be the second sentence in an essay and outline the topic of the entire essay
What is the thesis statement?
500
Connects words, phrases, or clauses
What is a conjunction?
500
The act of drawing a conclusion that is not actually stated in the text
What is inference?
500
Part of the sentence that answers "what?" and follows a linking (being) verb
What is a subject complement?