Vocabulary 1
This is another word for a kidnapping.
What is an abduction?
Adding _____ to a word means doing.
What is ing?
A comparison that uses like or as.
What is a simile?
Fill in the blank.
The police car was _______________; it did not stand out among the other cars.
What is nondescript?
the final outcome of the story’s conflict
What is the resolution?
Fill in the blank:
The rich woman would not _________ to talk to her poor relatives.
Condescend
This root word means before.
What is fore?
a figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things but implies a comparison instead of stating it directly with the word like or as
What is a metaphor?
Fill in the Blank
After repeated failed attempts to learn how to complete a lay up, Jorden became ___________ towards basketball.
What is apathetic?
A conversation between characters is known as this.
What is dialogue?
Fill in the blank.
The store owner did not want people to __________ at the entrance to his building.
What is loiter?
Terr means _________.
Language that is not meant to be taken literally, but rather for effect.
What is figurative language?
Selling hot chocolate on the beach in July was a(n) ____________ idea.
What is absurd?
an individual in a literary work whose thoughts, feelings, actions, and reactions move the action of the plot forward
What is a character?
The rotten seafood that was left outside was especially _______________.
Malodorous
Adding est to a word make it mean _________.
What is the most?
a figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human form or qualities
What is personification?
The car would not go forward or backwards after the ___________ failed.
What is a transmission.
an aspect of a person or character's behavior and attitude that make up that character’s personality
What is a trait?
This is another word for "to take apart."
Dismantle
This prefix means wrongly.
What is mis?
the events, situations, or language that surround a particular word, phrase or piece of text that help explain its meaning
What is context?
Despite being caught with her hand in the cookie jar after being told no, Ruby was __________.
What is unabashed?
the sequence of events that take place in a work of literature
What is the plot?