Author: Chad Welker
Company: Microsoft

Questions for English Language Arts & Speech/Drama/Debate
Mr. Alan Welker

Public Speaking
1q. This speech type is typically presented at a funeral, graveside, or at a memorial.
1a. What is a eulogy?

2q. This speech type is presented during a graduation ceremony.
2a. What is a commencement speech?

3q. This speech type is typically presented as a satire for comedic purposes.
3a. What is a skit?

4q. This speech type is presented in order to influence a group.
4a. What is a persuasive speech?

5q. This speech type may be presented along with visual aids and is intended to provide edification of facts, figures, and statistics.
5a. What is an informative speech?

English I & II
1q. This perspective refers a personal account of events.
1a. What is First Person?

2q. This perspective refers to an exterior or eye-witness account of events.
2a. What is Third Person?

3q. This narrative perspective has access to all the thoughts and feelings of all the characters involved in the story.
3a. What is Omniscient?

4q. This This narrative perspective has access to the thoughts and feelings of a single character.
4a. What is Limited Omniscient?

5q. This narrative perspective does not have access to the thoughts or feelings of any of the characters.
5a. What is Objective?

Literature
1q. This genre includes futuristic societies with authoritarian government and suppression of human rights.
1a. What is a dystopia?

2q. This genre includes an investigation of a crime or circumstances.
2a. What is Mystery?

3q. This genre includes the use of futuristic or otherwise advanced technologies.
3a. What is Science Fiction?

4q. This genre includes scenarios of teenage life.
4a. What is teen fiction?

5q. This genre includes social commentary through an ironic juxtaposition.
5a. What is satire?

HS English
1q. This term refers to the main character of a story.
1a. What is an antagonist?

2q. This term refers to a person, group, or obstacle working in opposition of the main character.
2a. What is an antagonist?

3q. This term refers to the overall message of a literary work.
3a. What is theme?

4q. This term refers to a word which is used to join two clauses.
4a. What is a conjunction?

5q, This punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses with related ideas.
5a. What is a semi-colon.

Writing
1q. This term refers to the neatness of handwritten text.
1a. What is penmanship?

2q. This punctuation mark denotes a list.
2a. What is a colon?

3q. This is a dependent clause with optional information in the body of a sentence.
3a. What is a prepositional phrase?

4q. This term refers to the main noun in an independent clause.
4a. What is the subject?

5q. This term refers to the main verb in an independent clause.
5a. What is the predicate?