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A rule saying the sentence
"Government officials said that
they are correcting the problem” is
improper.
What is inconsistent verb
tenses?
A rule saying the sentence “Each
student must clean their own room”
is improper.
What is subject/verb agreement
The word that makes the following
sentence “I drug myself out of bed this
morning before heading to class”
improper.
What is “drug” (It should be
dragged).
A rule stating why the sentence
“It looks like it will rain” is
improper.
What is never use “like” before a
clause
The word/phrase that makes “I’m
going with you on vacation, aren’t
I?” improper.
What is “Aren’t I”. (It
should be Am I not”)
The device used in the following
sentence: “Alice’s aunt ate apples and
acorns around August.”
What is alliteration?
The device used in the following sentence:
“The water droplets plop into the pond.”
What is Onomatopoeia?
The device used in the following
sentence: “The stars danced
playfully in the moonlit sky.”
What is personification?
The device in the following sentence:
“It was so cold, I saw polar bears
wearing jackets.”
What is hyperbole?
The device used in the
following sentence: “His
parents bought him a new set
of wheels.”
What is
Synecdoche?
This novel is about five sisters trying to marry into
wealth, whose lives are turned upside down when a
wealthy man and his best friend, named Mr.
Bingley, arrive in their town
What is Pride and
Prejudice?
This novel is about a young orphan being
raised by her cruel aunt who sends her to a
boarding school who becomes a governess
and falls in love with Edward Rochester.
What is Jane Eyre?
This novel is about an insane medical
student who discovers how to make
people invisible.
What is The
Invisible Man?
This novel is about a man who is
hurdled into the future by his own
contraption where he finds two
races-the Eloi and the Morlocks.
What is The Time
Machine?
This novel is about a man who seeks revenge,
who rose in his adopted family but then was
reduced to the status of a servant after
running away when the love of his life
married another.
What is Wuthering
Heights?
This American novel is about a guy who
fled his prep school and holes up in New
York City to rail against adult phoniness
while remaining innocent.
What is Catcher in the Rye?
This novel is about the Joad family in the Great
Depression who hold onto their dignity through their
hardships.
What is The
Grapes of Wrath?
This novel centers in the infamous
bombing of Dresden, and the odyssey
through time as the characters try to
search for the meaning of their deepest
fears.
What is
Slaughterhouse Five?
This novel is about a girl named Caroline
Meeber who takes a journey from the depths
of industrial labor to the heists of fame.
What is Sister Carrie?
This novel is about a group of shipwrecked
boys who have to learn to survive on an
island to face each other as they struggle
with power, control, and starvation.
What is The Lord of
the Flies?
"Cowards die many times before their
deaths; The valiant never taste of death
but once”: this quote is from this play.
What is Julius Caesar from
William Shakespeare?
“Every easy choice today will have its consequences
tomorrow”: This quote is from this play.
What is Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick
Shanley?
“I swear, if you existed, I'd divorce
you”: This quote is from this play.
What is Who’s afraid of
Virginia Wolf by Edward
Albee?
"And then it started like a guilty thing/Upon a fearful
summons“: This quote is from this play.
What is Hamlet by
William Shakespeare?
“It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich
jewel in an Ethiope's ear”: This quote is from this
play.
What is Romeo and Juliet from William Shakespeare
Make your wager
It was because of these historical
incarcerations that Nathaniel
Hawthorne changed his name from
its original spelling.
What is the Salem
Witch Trials?