vocabulary
this verb means to "listen in on someone's conversation" from the rooftop
eavesdrop
Who wrote "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?
Robert Frost
When a character faces a problem within herself, such as shyness, we call this _______________ conflict.
internal
This punctuation mark is used to show dialogue or to borrow another writer's words
quotation marks
When we change a book into a movie, it is called an _________________________.
frugal people are good with ______________
money
"Scaffolding" is a ______________poem because it is about the idea of building relationships.
lyric
This element of sound is used to spell out a sound from the world around us.
onomatopoeia
give an example of a common conjunction
and, but, or, because, etc.
this trait of good writing describes how smoothly our words flow together
fluency
Name a student with a MONOSYLLABIC name. . .
Blake, Ace, Claire, etc.
What is one term to describe the genre of The Outsiders?
prose, fiction, novel, realistic fiction
Give an example of ALLITERATION.
Noah Neth, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, etc.
a, an, the are the only ____________________ in the English language
articles
What symbols are used to indicate RHYME SCHEME?
capital letters
What part-of-speech is the word APATHY?
noun
This character is still alive at the end of The Outsiders.
a) Dally
b) Darry
c) Bob
d) Johnny
b) Darry
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is called the _________________.
meter
What is one use of the single quotation marks.
A quote inside a quote OR to show what a character is thinking
Which syllable is stressed in the word BATAVIA?
the second
This word has a negative connotation. . .
a) egregious
b) rendezvous
c) ecology
d) ambience
a) egregious
Identify and explain a pair of FOILS in The Outsiders
Ponyboy and Darry
placing two images side by side so that we compare and contrast them is called________________
juxtaposition
capitalize all of the letters in ________________such as NASCAR, NFL, and NBA.
acronyms
literature that has been adapted for younger readers, like making it easier and shorter is called. . .
abridged