Which sentence is a run-on sentence?

She loves to read she goes to the library every weekend.

Which of the following is an example of parallel structure?

She likes reading, writing, and jogging.

Which of the following sentences correctly uses a semicolon?

I have a big test tomorrow; I can't go out tonight.

Which of these is a correct use of a dash?

She packed everything she needed – clothes, books, and snacks.

Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?

It's a beautiful day; let's go outside!

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1
Which poet wrote "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"?
T.S. Eliot
W.B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas
Sylvia Plath
2
Which of these sentences proves that punctuation can literally save lives?
Let’s eat: Grandma!
Let’s eat Grandma!
Let’s eat, Grandma!
Lets eat Grandma!
3
Which of these novels is considered an example of postcolonial literature?
Crime and Punishment
Frankenstein
Things Fall Apart
Jane Eyre
4
Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Virginia Woolf
Bram Stoker
Emily Brontë
Oscar Wilde
5
Which novel starts with the famous line: "Call me Ishmael"?
Great Expectations
The Great Gatsby
Dracula
Moby Dick
6
Which sentence is a run-on sentence?
Because she loves to read, she goes to the library every weekend.
She loves to read she goes to the library every weekend.
She loves to read. She goes to the library every weekend.
She loves to read, so she goes to the library every weekend.
7
Which of the following is an example of parallel structure?
She likes reading, to write, and jogging.
She likes to read, writing, and jogging.
She likes reading, writing, and jogging.
She likes reading, writing, and to jog.
8
Who wrote Sense and Sensibility?
Charles Dickens
Ernest Hemingway
Charlotte Bronte
Jane Austen
9
Which of the following sentences correctly uses a semicolon?
I have a big test tomorrow; I can't go out tonight.
I have a big test tomorrow, I can't go out tonight.
I have a big test tomorrow; but I can't go out tonight.
I have a big test tomorrow: I can't go out tonight.
10
Which of these is an example of a metaphor?
As brave as a lion.
The world is a stage.
He ran like the wind.
The water was as cold as ice.
11
Which literary device is used in the phrase: "The wind whispered through the trees"?
Metaphor
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Personification
12
What is the literary term for a story within a story?
Allegory
Metafiction
Parable
Frame narrative
13
In 1984, what is the name of the totalitarian government that rules Oceania?
The Capitol
Big Brother
The Brotherhood
The Inner Party
14
Which punctuation mark is used to join two independent clauses without a conjunction?
Comma (,)
Colon (:)
Apostrophe (')
Semicolon (;)
15
Which of these is a correct use of a dash?
She packed everything she needed – clothes, books, and snacks.
She packed everything she needed: – clothes, books, and snacks.
She packed everything she needed, – clothes, books, and snacks.
She packed everything she needed; – clothes, books, and snacks.
16
Which literary movement is associated with Edgar Allan Poe and Mary Shelley?
Realism
Naturalism
Modernism
Romanticism
17
Which of the following authors is considered a pioneer of the stream of consciousness narrative technique?
Leo Tolstoy
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Virginia Woolf
Charles Dickens
18
Which of the following sentences is punctuated correctly?
Its a beautiful day, let's go outside!
Its' a beautiful day, lets go outside!
It's a beautiful day; let's go outside!
It's a beautiful day let's go outside!
19
Which punctuation mark is used to indicate a pause in a sentence but is stronger than a comma?
Semicolon (;)
Parentheses ()
Hyphen (-)
Colon (:)
20
Which play features the famous line, "To be or not to be, that is the question"?
Othello
Hamlet
Macbeth
King Lear

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