Vocabulary
Read this sentence from "Pecos Bill."
"Hey, fellar," he said, holding up a dazed snake.
What does the word dazed mean in this sentence?
100
What is confused or stunned?
What word would you add to shoe to describe something that protects a hoof?
100
What is horseshoe?
"Well that bronco didn't need any thorns in his side to start bucking to the band." What is the figurative language used?
100
What is an idiom?
The tall tales are made with boastful, comic language of heroes such as Davey Crockett and Paul Bunyan. What is boastful?
100
What is bragging?
Which is a synonym for dazed?
happy, unsure, certain, or troubled
200
What is unsure?
Add a word to earth to mean "ground shakes."
200
What is earthquake?
"Bang - the race was on!" What figurative language is used here?
200
What is an onomatopeia?
Which of these is a compound word?
cowboy, river, already, or crowded
200
What is cowboy?
Read this sentence from "Pecos Bill."
But after a lovely ceremony, a terrible catastrophe occurred.
What does the word catastrophe mean in this sentence.
300
What is disaster?
Add a word to country to describe a location outside of cities.
300
What is countryside?
"When Pecos Bill was a little baby, he was as tough as a pine knot." What figurative language was used?
300
What is simile?
Which is a compound word?
prairie, dirt, desert, or tumbleweed
300
What is tumbleweed?
Which word in the sentence is a clue to the meaning of the word catastrophe?
But after a lovely ceremony, a terrible catastrophe occurred.
400
What is terrible?
Kin means "related." What word would you add to kin to mean "people related to you"?
400
What is kinfolk?
He could hammer for hours without missing a beat, so fast that his hammer moved like lightning." What figurative language is this?
400
What is hyperbole?
"The mighty cyclone bucked, arched, and screamed... What is the figurative language?
400
What is personification?
Read this sentence from "John Henry"
He saw men robbed of their dignity and robbed of their families.
What does the word dignity mean in this sentence.
500
What is pride?
Add a word to rattle to generate a name of a specific kind of reptile.
500
What is rattlesnake?
Read this sentence from "John Henry."
In the dim light, John Henry was the most powerful-looking baby ever seen.
What is the author referring to when calling John Henry, the most powerful-looking baby?
500
What is his strength from the earliest of ages?
What is a theme of a story?
500
What is the message an author is trying to convey?