Words or instructions in a play that are written in italics and enclosed by parenthesis.
What are stage directions?
100
The message or lesson of a story.
What is a theme?
100
The first stanza ends with the word "Immortality," and the poem ends with the word "eternity." The poet most likely arranged these two words this way to...
C. Link them together, which helps the reader think about life and death.
100
Akron suffered when the tire factories closed.
What is an antonym for suffered?
A. enjoyably B. prospered C. confused D. learned
What is B?
100
Simile, metaphor, or personification?
The sheets were as cold as ice?
What is a simile?
200
The person who telling the story of the play.
What is a narrator?
200
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
200
What is the rhyme scheme of the first stanza of the poem?
H. ABCB
200
After by busy day, the soft couch made me drowsy.
What is a synonym for drowsy?
A. scared B. happy C. slow D. sleepy
What is D?
200
Simile, metaphor, or personification?
The road was a ribbon of moonlight.
What is a metaphor?
300
The person who writes the play.
What is a playwright?
300
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is a conflict?
300
The speaker's tone suggests a comparison between Death and a -
D. Lonely traveler
300
The dinner guests were disappointed at the meager portions of food on their dinner plates.
What is a synonym for meager?
A. puny B. huge C. generous D. tasty
What is A?
300
Simile, metaphor, or personification?
The bonfire tossed sparks into the air and licked at the dark sky.
What is personification?
400
In a play, the conversation between characters; it advances the plot and reveals conflict.
What is dialogue?
400
The "feeling" created in the reader by a literary work or passage?
What is mood?
400
What does the word "civility" mean in line 8?
A. Politeness
400
My dad has an antiquated computer.
What is an antonym for antiquated?
A. antique B. tiny C. new D. old
What is C?
400
Simile, metaphor, or personification?
Her singing is a powerful medicine for the soul.
What is a metaphor?
500
When the curtains open in a stage play it represents -
That a new scene will begin.
500
The educated guess based on prior knowledge.
What is inference?
500
Which line from the poem shows that carriage ride is not an ordinary one?
J. We passed the setting sun.
500
Finishing the project in just a week would be a daunting task.
What is a synonym for daunting?
A. difficult B. simple C. strange D. easy
What is A?
500
Simile, metaphor, or personification?
The breeze whispered a lullaby through the trees.