Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Comprehension Q's
MYSTERY
100
Tree-ear turned away, feeling guilt like a shadow across his brow, and hoped _________ that he had not offended her. VOCABULARY: abrupt, fervently, unobtrusive, meagerness, brandishing, obliged, diligent, ministrations, trundled, commission
What is fervently
100
Which word means careful, hard work? abrupt, brandishing, diligent, ministrations, trundled, commission
What is diligent.
100
Which form of figurative language is being used in the example below and how do you know? Crane-man picked up a little rice in his fingers, and insistently, but still without a word, began feeding Tree-ear as if he were a baby.
What is simile, the author is comparing the way Crane-man is feeding Tree-ear to the way you feed a baby.
100
What is Min’s wife like? What role did women have in this time period?
Teacher Judgement: What is kind, thoughtful, and caring. They were in charge of the household chores like cooking, cleaning, and gathering food.
100
How did Crane man lose his crutch?
What is trying to gather flounder that had washed on shore so that he and Tree-ear could have a big supper.
200
With crane-man's careful ____________ Tree-ear's hand healed from his split blister. VOCABULARY: abrupt, fervently, unobtrusive, meagerness, brandishing, obliged, diligent, ministrations, trundled, commission
What is ministrations
200
What does the word "trundled" mean as used in the sentence below? “Once again Tree-ear trundled the cart, this time along the river road, until he reached the digging area.”
What is move or cause to move slowly and heavily.
200
Which form of figurative language is being used in the example below and how do you know? The though broke through Tree-ear's fatigue like a shaft of sunlight piercing a cloud.
What is a simile
200
How did Tree-ear feel when he heard of how Crane-man lost his crutch, why did he feel this way?
What is guilty because Crane-man risked hurting himself in order to get flounder for himself and Tree-ear to eat and Tree-ear had a full meal at Mins and didn't save any for Crane-man.
200
What does the author mean when she says: "Tree-ear’s joy at being forgiven was like a wisp of smoke; Min’s orders for the day blew it into nothingness."
What is Tree-ears happiness from being forgiven went away as soon as win begin barking orders.
300
When Tree-ear first hid his lunch bowl he had thought the location was ___________ but was proven wrong we he came back to find it had been polished clean. VOCABULARY: abrupt, fervently, unobtrusive, meagerness, brandishing, obliged, diligent, ministrations, trundled, commission
What is unobtrusive
300
What does the word commissions mean in the sentence below: Tree-ear learned that Min often lost well-paid "commissions" because he completed his work at such a slow pace.
What is an authoritative order or direction
300
Which form of figurative language is being used in the example below and how do you know? Tree-ear dared not look up. He felt like a beast with two-heads, one ashamed, the other resentful.
What is a simile, the author is comparing the way tree-ear is feeling two separate emotions at the same time to a beast with two heads and one body.
300
Give two adjectives to describe Min. Explain with situations from the text.
What is (teacher judgement)
300
What does the word oblivious mean as used in the sentence below? Oblivious to the rice spilling out of his sack the farmer continued on his way.
What is not conscious or aware of something
400
Min was _________ to feed Tree-ear a meal during his work day now that he was no longer working off a debt. VOCABULARY: abrupt, fervently, unobtrusive, meagerness, brandishing, obliged, diligent, ministrations, trundled, commission
What is obliged
400
What does the word fervently mean as used in the sentence below: Tree-ear apologized "fervently" after he almost hit Min's wife with his bowl.
What is having or showing strong feelings
400
What is the type of figurative language being used and how do you know? "The demons of sickness are no doubt already scheming to enter your body through such a door."
What is personification, the author is giving sickness the human like trait of entering through a door.
400
Why is tree-ear willing to work for Min without payment?
What is he wants so desperately to learn how to make pots like Master Min and he receives a daily meal.
400
What is the name of the type of pottery that has a blue/ green color once you fire it?
What is Celadon pottery?
500
Tree-ear was not put off by the _____________ of Crane-mans home under the bridge, he chose to live with him anyway. VOCABULARY: abrupt, fervently, unobtrusive, meagerness, brandishing, obliged, diligent, ministrations, trundled, commission
What is meagerness
500
What does the word complied mean as used in the sentence below: “’Fetch me a few leave, boy,’ said the farmer. Tree-ear complied, and the man stuffed them into the container as a temporary patch.”
What is to do what you have been asked or ordered to do
500
What are the descriptive words in this sentence? "No one had been able to name it satisfactorily, for although it was green, shades of blue and gray and violet whispered beneath it, as in the sea on a cloudy day."
What is green, gray, violet, beneath, cloudy
500
Give one example of interdependence from the book.
What is (teacher judgement)
500
The small village of Ch'ul'po is a village know for it's........
What is pottery
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