Elements of literature
Hero's journey
Parts of speech
Parts of sentence
Trivia
100
The point of view: “Petey Glances around the room. The other guys at lower weights smile again, all looking tremendously relieved. Petey wonders if this time he has truly bitten off more than he can chew.” (Crutcher pg. 56)
What is third person limited?
100
“Jonas did not want to go back. He didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the pain.” (The Giver, pg 121)
What is the refusal of the call
100
Quickly, the cow jumped over the fence. quickly
What is adverb?
100
The fat cat slept on the chair. cat?
What is simple subject?
100
State capital: Sacramento
What is California?
200
The point of view: “I will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon.” (Walker pg. 314)
What is first person?
200
“‘Jonas,’ she said, speaking not to him alone but to the entire community of which he was a part, ‘you will be trained to be our next Receiver of Memory. We thank you for your childhood.’” (The Giver, pg 64)
What is call to adventure?
200
I'm the best one here. Here
What is adverb?
200
In 1988, a person was born. in 1988 was born?
What is complete predicate
200
The European city where Notre Dame is located.
What is Paris, France?
300
The point of view: “Arnold lay still as a fugitive, listening to the cows eating close by. If his parents never called him, he thought, he would stay up in the loft forever, out of the way.” (Berriault pg. 4)
What is third person limited?
300
As Jonas receives more and more memories, he begins to question everything that is going on around him. He is upset when his friends play a war game, and he is horrified to witness his own father release a new child.
What is tests, allies, enemies?
300
He was the best student last year. He
What is subjective pronoun?
300
Apparently, you don't know the answer. you?
What is the simple/complete subject?
300
The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
400
What kind of conflict is best exemplified by the following excerpt from “The Other Pin’?: “Chris looks back towards the house. ‘Sometimes. I haven’t told anyone that; but I get teased a lot and it gets real old….” (Crutcher pg. 73)
What is character versus society?
400
“Jonas recognized the man. He was the Elder who had seemed separate from the others at the Ceremony, though he was dressed in the same special clothing that only Elders wore. Jonas looked self-consciously into the pale eyes that mirrored his own.” (The Giver, pg 75)
What is meeting the mentor?
400
The slimy booger he picked from his nose was on my table. slimy?
What is adjective?
400
I told him a secret. him?
What is indirect object?
400
The falling fruit that supposedly inspired Isaac Newton's laws of gravity.
What is an apple?
500
Maggie is very shy because when Dee and Asalamalakim visit, she cowers behind her mother, and when Asalamalakim “moves to hug [her]..she falls back.” (Walker pg. 318)
What is indirect characterization?
500
“[The Giver] continued. ‘If you get away, if you get beyond, if you get to Elsewhere, it will mean that the community has to bear the burden themselves, of the memories you had been holding for them. I think they can, and that they will acquire some wisdom.’” (The Giver, Pg 156)
What is the reward/elixir?
500
the noun the pronoun refers to.
What is antecedent?
500
includes the simple predicate, direct object plus modifiers, indirect object plus modifiers, predicate nominative, predicate adjectives, and adverbs.
What is the complete predicate?
500
The groundnut's more common name?
What is the peanut? (don't ring these in your lunches this week)
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