Verbs
Literary Terms
Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots
Vocabulary
Grammar
100

The verb in the following sentence is formed from this principal part:

The Frank family had hidden in the attic.

What is past participle?

100

This results when the reader knows more than one or more of the characters do.

What is dramatic irony?

100

This suffix indicates a noun that means "the act of condition of."

What is -ion?

100

This word from Elie Wiesel's Acceptance Speech for the Nobel Peace Prize means "subject to hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race or religious beliefs."

What is persecuted?

100

This is the coordinating conjunction in the following sentence: 

Jack and Jill ran up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

What is "and"?

200

These are the four principal parts of verbs.

What are present, present participle, past, and past participle?

200

This term is defined as a reason a character takes a particular action.

What is character motivation?

200
Using your understanding of the suffix -ion, define the word "illustration."

What is the act or condition of illustrating?

200

One who can be described as this term is subject to lasting shock as a result of an emotionally disturbing experience.

What is traumatized?
200

This is the coordinating conjunction in the following sentence:

I prefer pizza, but a sandwich will work for lunch today.

What is "but"?

300

These are the three simple tenses of verbs.

What are present, past, and future?
300

This motivation is based on emotions such as loneliness, ambition, fear, or jealousy.

What is internal motivation?

300

The Latin suffix -ent can make a verb or a noun into this part of speech.

What is an adjective?

300

One who is experiencing a bad feeling about an upcoming event is having a sense of this.

What is foreboding?

300
This is the coordinating conjunction in the following sentence:

Will you join us for a basketball game later, or are you going straight home?

What is "or"?

400

These are the perfect tenses of verbs.

What are present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect?

400

This is an action sparked by settings, events, or situations such as war or poverty.

What is external motivation?

400

This root means "draw tight."

What is -strict-?

400

One who stands rigid stands this way.

What is stiff and inflexible?

400

This word can function as either a coordinating conjunction or a preposition.

What is "for"?

500

This is the perfect tense in the following sentence: He will have given a moving delivery of the speech by now.

What is future perfect?

500

This term is defined as an educated guess based on evidence.

What is an inference?
500

This is the root in the word traumatic.

What is -trauma-?

500

This word means not allowed or banned.

What is forbidden?

500
List all seven coordinating conjunctions.

What are but, or, yet, for, and, nor, so?

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