Grammar
Most Dangerous Game
Disguises
The Great Escape
Vocabulary/Literature
100
I have a good nose I smell home.
What is a run on sentence?
100
True or False: General Zaroff "wins" the game.
What is false?
100
Explain who helps Mrs. Chen?
Who is the stranger?
100
True or False? Big X's real reason for trying to escape was to force Germany to pay less attention to the war effort.
What is true?
100
Define vigilance.
What is watchfulness?
200
Boston massachusetts seems more modern than san francisco.
What are incorrect capital letters?
200
Define internal conflict.
What is when the main character undergoes an emotional struggle with himself or herself?
200
This is the "where" of a story - the time period and place in which the action of a story takes place.
What is the setting?
200
In an informational text like The Great Escape, this is the central idea or message.
What is the theme?
200
This literary device mocks and ridicules an individual or a group.
What is satire?
300
November 28 1996 was Thanksgiving Day.
What are missing commas?
300
General Zaroff doesn't hunt animals - he hunts humans. Explain.
What is he is bored with the other game?
300
Explain how/why Mrs. Chen gets lost.
What is because she doesn't speak English?
300
Explain the main idea/theme of The Great Escape.
What is when the prisoners in Stalag Luft III showed that by working together they could accomplish their goal?
300
This is the part of the plot in which the basic situation is outlined and the characters and main conflict are introduced.
What is the exposition/beginning of the story?
400
Rodney said it would be nice to have a warm day outside.
What are missing quotation marks?
400
Explain why the island is called Ship Trap Island.
What is the name of the island suggests a dangerous place for people to visit?
400
Explain why Mrs. Chen dreams of her past while she is riding on the subway.
What is the fact that her dreams may provide her comfort in a new/foreign land?
400
Define prowled.
What is hunted?
400
Define revoke.
What is to cancel or take away?
500
Few rainy days for Maria Smith.
What is a sentence fragment?
500
The climax of a story is the moment of emotional intensity when we learn how the conflict will be resolved. Explain when we learn of the outcome of the conflict between Rainsford and Zaroff.
What is the last paragraph of the story when Rainsford decided he had never slept in a better bed?
500
Explain the internal and external conflicts that Mrs. Chen experiences.
What is one conflict with her supervisor (external) and one conflict with the language barrier (internal)?
500
Define pursued.
What is followed?
500
This is when writers give hints of what is to come later on in the story for the reader to figure out.
What is foreshadowing?
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