This group of words looks a lot like a sentence, but is incomplete.
What is a fragment?
100
This is the name of the story's main character
Who is Eckels?
100
This literary infraction means to use information from someone else without giving them credit
What is plagiarism?
100
Correct the following sentence:
Anna blow-dried her hair, made her breakfast, and was singing Rolling in the Deep.
Change "was singing" to "sang"
100
The following is an example of this literary device:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
What is alliteration?
200
This type of incorrect sentence puts two independent clauses together with a comma instead of a period or semicolon
What is a comma splice?
200
This sound represents the footsteps of the dinosaur as well as a gunshot
What is thunder?
200
This type of idea taken from someone else needs to go in quotation marks
What is a direct quotation?
200
Correct the following sentence:
Jenny looked behind her desk, on top of the refrigerator, and checked inside her locker, but she could not find her shoes for gym.
Remove the word "checked"
200
The following famous line from the show "My Fair Lady" is an example of this literary device:
"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"
What is assonance?
300
This punctuation mark should be used between two independent clauses
What is a semicolon
300
This mark was left on dinosaurs to prevent the wrong ones from being killed
What is a red "x"?
300
This type of idea taken from someone else needs to be cited, but without quotation marks
What is a paraphrase?
300
Correct the following sentence:
James loved not only math, but he also was particularly excited about physics.
Remove "he" and "was also particularly excited about"
300
This actress appears in the Maccabeats "Miracle" video
Who is Mayim Bialik?
400
The words for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so can all connect independent clauses together with this punctuation mark
What is a comma?
400
This substance gathered in Eckels' throat at the beginning of the story, grossing out the class
What is phlegm?
400
This goes at the end of your paper to let your reader know where you got your information
What is a Works Cited Page or Bibliography?
400
Shana not only ripped open her new package, but also was munching on donuts while her family sang Chanuka songs.
Change "was munching" to "munched"
400
All literature essays should be written in this grammatical tense
What is present tense?
500
Words such as because, although, before, even though, after, all fall into this category of conjunctions
What are subordinate conjunctions?
500
This object is described in the story as "a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, "an aurora that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue"
What is the time machine?
500
This is what will happen to you if you plagiarize
What is get kicked out of college?
500
Correct the following sentence:
Crawling spiders, wriggling snakes, and mosquitoes that bite filled the hotel room.
Change "mosquitoes that bite" to "biting mosquitoes"
500
This line from the famous song indicates that Adele had heartburn following her breakup