Grammar
What are the two things that every complete sentence has?
A subject and a verb
Which state was Frederick Douglass born in?
Maryland
What state were the clergymen who made a public statement from?
Alabama
What honorific title does the poet Joy Harjo hold?
US Poet Laureate
What does the “I” in “ICE” stand for?
Introduce
What is a sentence fragment?
A sentence that is missing a subject or a verb
What are the “unalienable rights” that the authors of the Declaration say our Creator endowed us with?
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
When was Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Letter to my Son” written?
2015
Who is Ocean Vuong’s poem “Toy Boat” dedicated to?
Tamir Rice
Which of the three Greek rhetorical methods has to do with Logic?
Logos
What is a comma splice?
Two sentences stuck together with a comma
What year was the Declaration of Independence written?
1776
Which family member is James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook” written to?
His nephew
Who wrote the lines, "I like a pipe for a Christmas present,/or records—Bessie, bop, or Bach."
Langston Hughes
Which two words should you never use to begin the conclusion of an essay?
"In conclusion"
What is a run-on sentence?
Two sentences stuck together without any punctuation
Who said “oppression makes a wise man mad”?
Frederick Douglass
Who says “I do not weep at the world; I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife”?
Zora Neale Hurston
Who asks this question in a poem: “would you be baptized in this fountain of funky sweat?”
Harryette Mullen
Do the titles of poems in italics or quotation marks?
Quotation marks
What is the difference between “its” and “it’s”?
Its=possessive "it" ; "it's"= "it is" or "it has"
Which famous Elizabethan English playwright does Frederick Douglass quote in his Fourth of July speech?
William Shakespeare
Which ancient Christian saint does MLK quote toward the end of “Letter from Birmingham Jail”?
Saint Augustine
Which country is Carolyn Forché’s “The Colonel” set in?
El Salvador
Who wrote “Politics and the English Language”?
George Orwell