Miss Scheck, Annalee Fern (the dog), Language Arts, Elmwood Middle School
What is a Noun
100
The sequence of all events in a story. *What we usually summarize.
What is Plot
100
A fictional story that revolves around discovering secrets or solving crimes.
What is Mystery
100
Instead his eyes burned and tears came, the SEEPING tears that burned, but he didn’t cry.
Pass gradually or leak or as if through small openings
100
During the last decade, windsurfing has ___________ more popular. Is it: getted, get, gotted, gotten
What is Gotten
200
Great, Small, Pretty, White, Slimy, Smelly, Tight
What is an Adjective
200
The important people in the story.
What are characters/main characters.
200
A fictional story, often set in the future or in different worlds, that includes science or technology.
What is Science Fiction
200
He settled back on his haunches in exasperation, looking at the pitiful CLUMP of grass and twigs.
What is a grouping of a number of similar things
200
Replace the uppercase word with a more positive word. Alisa and Marco had a long ARGUMENT about the article.
What is discussion/debate
300
Read, Write, Count, Sing, Jump, Run
What is a Verb
300
The major problem in the story. There are two categories: external and internal.
What is Conflict
300
A fictional story set in the past.
What is Historical Fiction
300
He had a VAGUE feeling that he was wrong to keep heading as die plane was heading, a feeling that he might be going off in the wrong direction, but he could not bring himself to stop the engine and fall.
What is lacking clarity or distinctness
300
Complete the analogy. Tennis: Racquet:: Volleyball:
What is Hand.
400
Slowly, Quickly, Badly, Well
What is an Adverb
400
The underlying or stated main idea of the story.
What is Theme
400
True stories of actual events or characters, including: biography, autobiography, information, newspaper, and reference.
What is Nonfiction
400
But the pilot had put his headset back on and the GRATITUDE was lost in the engine noise and things went back to Brian looking out the window at the ocean of trees and lakes.
What is a feeling of thankfulness and appreciation
400
What is the correct way to divide this word into syllables?
Representative
What is rep re sen ta tive
500
And, So, Or, Because
What is a Conjunction
500
Where and when the story takes place.
What is Setting
500
Words arranged in a metrical pattern, often using rhymed verse in an imaginative style.
What is Poetry
500
He had no hooks or string but if he could somehow LURE them into the shallows—and make a spear, a small fish spear—he might be able to strike fast enough to get one.
What is provoke someone to do something through persuasion