Verb Tenses
More Verb Tenses

"The Monkey's Paw"
"Ex-Basketball Player"
"Sea Fever"
100

past tense of jump

jumped

100

the present participle of run (Hint: use "am")

am running

100

This is the author of "The Monkey's Paw."

W.W. Jacobs

100

Flick Webb played for this basketball team.

Wizards

100

The "sea's face" is an example of what literary device?

personification

200

past emphatic of watch

did watch

200

past participle of joke (Hint: use "have")

have joked

200

This person brought the monkey's paw to the Whites.

Sergeant-Major Morris

200

This is the author of "Ex-Basketball Player."

John Updike

200

"Whale's way" is an example of this term referring to repeated consonant sounds.

alliteration

300

present perfect of cheer

have (has) cheered

300

Lisa ____________________ basketball after school. (present emphatic of practice)

Lisa does practice basketball after school.

300

This was the first wish made by Mr. White.

£200 (pounds)

300

This poem is written in ____________ verse, meaning it has a certain meter but no rhyme scheme.

blank

300

This is the author of "Sea Fever."

John Masefield

400

past perfect of walk

had walked

400

Paul ____________________ several races during high school. (present perfect of run)

Paul has run several races during high school.

400

Use a vocabulary word from the story to complete this sentence.

Tom _________________ held the door open for his friend, demonstrating his friendly personality.

amiably

400

Describe one way the gas pumps were personified in this poem.

Answers may vary.

"idiot pumps"

"nostrils"
400
A four-line stanza is called a ____________.

quatrain

500

present perfect progressive of learn

have (has) been learning

500

The college sophomores __________________________ many English concepts before graduation. 

(future perfect progressive of study)

The college sophomores will have been studying many English concepts before graduation.

500

Explain the speaker and significance: "Well, I don't see the monkey...and I bet I never shall!"

Herbert White says this. Ironically, he will not see the money, because his death will be the reason his parents are given the money by Maw and Meggins.

500

This term refers to poetry have 10 syllables per line, with alternating unstressed and stressed syllables divided into pairs.

iambic pentameter

500

Explain the metaphor "long trick's over."

His journey on the sea ends, representing his life and impending death.

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