Quizzical Quotes
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood. Clean from my hand?"
Macbeth
When should you use a full stop?
When a sentence has finished.
On his thirteenth birthday, Arin finds a small wooden door in the trunk of an old tree. Behind it lies a path leading to a place where the sky glows purple and animals speak in riddles. The creatures there insist Arin has been expected for a very long time and that only he can restore something that has been broken for centuries.
Fantasy
Her love for her children is as constant as the passing of time.
Simile
Wilfred _____ , famous poet who wrote about the horrors of WW1
Owen
“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
The Yew Tree (A Monster Calls)
What is a comma splice?
A comma that is used to join two independent clauses.
Every night at 2:17 a.m., the same tapping sound comes from behind Ellie’s bedroom wall. Her parents insist it’s just old pipes, but the tapping is becoming louder and more deliberate. When she finally dares to knock back, the tapping stops… and begins again from inside her wardrobe.
Horror / mystery
The tree's limb cracked and groaned when lightning hit it.
Personification / metaphor
The sixth book of the bible
Joshua
"Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't"
Lady Macbeth
List the two instances you would need to use a colon.
1. To introduce a list
2. Before an explanation or elaboration
When the power fails across the entire city, only Maya’s building still has light. Her phone begins receiving messages from numbers that don’t exist, warning her not to trust anyone. As she investigates the source of the signal, she discovers a hidden room beneath the basement filled with unfamiliar technology that shouldn’t exist yet.
Sci-fi
Thumping and booming in excitement, my heart pounded to hear the results of the lottery.
Onomatopoeia
_______ Plath, famous poet
Sylvia
"Ally my pretty chickens?"
Macduff
List the two instances you would need to use a semicolon.
1. To combine two independent clauses
2. To separate longer items in a list
Lena and Kai meet by accident when they both reach for the last seat on a crowded train. What begins as an awkward conversation turns into daily messages, shared secrets, and plans for the future. But a misunderstanding neither of them knows about threatens to pull them apart before they have a chance to explain.
Romance
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
Enjambment
Victor ________ (Writer of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and
Hugo
"Your stories never made any sense to me"
Conor
List the 3 instances where you would need to use a comma.
1. After a subordinate clause
2. Before a coordinating conjunction
3. To separate items in a list
Growing up in a small coastal town, Daniel spent his childhood repairing broken radios in his father’s shed. His curiosity about how things worked led him to build inventions from scrap metal, eventually earning a scholarship that would take him far from home. Through failures, setbacks, and determination, he slowly changed not only his own life but the lives of many others.
Biography
You stole the forbidden fruit when you took his snack.
Allusion
The name of the wizards daughter in 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare
Miranda