Airborn Vocabulary
Learned Concepts
General Questions
Characters
Figurative Language
100
This is where Matt kept watch over the Aurora.
What is the crow's nest?
100
This is added to the ending of a root word.
What is a suffix?
100
Matt's treasured item is _______________ and he got it as a gift from ___________________ .
What is a compass that he got as a gift from his father?
100
This person was found unconscious in an air balloon.
Who is Benjamin Molloy?
100
This figurative language uses is an indirect comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
200
Due to losing too much of this, the Aurora had to do an emergency landing on the island.
What is hydrium?
200
People selling something and employers are two categories of people who find these very useful.
What are classified ads.
200
Explain why it made sense that Benjamin Molloy's air balloon was named the Endurance.
Because he intended to travel around the world - and to do so you would need endurance.
200
This is the name of Kate's chaperone.
What is Miss Marjorie Simpkins?
200
Giving inanimate objects or animals human-like qualities.
What is personification.
300
An area the Aurora dared not go as previous airships had gone in and never came out.
What is the Sisyphus Triangle?
300
This style of writing is used to convince someone of your viewpoint.
What is persuasive writing?
300
Matt and Kate are certain the island they land on is "Ben's island." Explain.
Because the island looks like the drawings that Ben drew in his log - particularly the mountain.
300
This character is from Australia and is Matt's roommate.
Who is Baz?
300
A direct comparison.
What is a metaphor.
400
This contains the ship's navigation room, radio room and the Bridge
What is the control car?
400
This is a persuasive strategy in which you gain people's trust or faith.
What is ethos?
400
The author uses this movie to get Matt thinking about his father. Summarize what happened to Matt's father.
What is the movie Gilgamesh. He was working on the Aurora as a Junior Sailmaker when a storm hit causing damage to the outside of the airship. He went to fix the damage when a strip of sail hit him in the head knocking him unconscious. The weight of his fall tore his safety cleat and he fell to his death.
400
This character is Captain Szpirglas' right-hand man.
Who is Crumlin?
400
"Kate stumbled and I took her hand, slippery as an eel." The phrase that is used figuratively is ____________ and the type of figurative language used is ______________.
What is "slippery as an eel" and it is a metaphor?
500
"Two sailmakers were rappelling down the port side of the Aurora." A synonym for rappelling is ____________________
What is descending? (other answers may be accepted - judge's discretion).
500
This type of writing is written in first person and includes a description, and interpretation and an outcome.
What is a personal reflection?
500
This is what happens to each of the pirates in the final chapters of the novel.
What is: Matt tricks the first two pirates to fall out the loading bay door, the third pirate gets locked in the engine car, Crumlin shoots Rhino Hand, Crumlin is eaten by the cloud cat, Szpirglas falls off the Aurora and is eaten by a flock of cloud cats as he falls and the other three pirates are tied up by Captain Walken and the rest of the Aurora's crew.
500
This person is only mentioned in the novel but does not have an actual role. He is the owner of the Aurora.
Who is Otto Lunardi?
500
"It was a clear day, and the rising sun was painting jittering diamonds on the surface." The phrase that is used figuratively is __________ and the type of figurative language used is _____________.
What is "the rising sun was painting jittering diamonds on the surface" and it is an example of personification?
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