Plot
Etymology
Reading Prep.
Name that Tool
Fun Facts
100
The central problem in the plot.
What is the conflict?
100
This language brought us tomato, canyon, mosquito, and plaza.
What is Spanish?
100
The certain feeling created by the story.
What is mood?
100
My book weighs a ton!
What is a hyperbole?
100
Rats can't do this.
What is vomit?
200
The high point of action in the story.
What is the climax?
200
This language brought us algebra, alfalfa, alcohol, safari, and monsoon?
What is Arabic?
200
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza.
200
The wind raced through the classroom and tossed the papers in the air.
What is personification?
200
"Meanwhile" and "At the same time" signal what kind of episodes in a plot?
What are parallel episodes?
300
Stories that DIRECTLY tell the theme as the moral or lesson. Main characters are often animals.
What are fables?
300
Language which brought us bravo, studio, lasagna, opera, and broccoli.
What is Italian?
300
The author's attitude toward the story and toward the reader.
What is tone?
300
Horribly good.
What is an oxymoron?
300
How many of the original 7 Wonders of the World still exist?
What is one- The Great Pyramid of Giza.
400
The series of events in a story.
What is the plot?
400
Language which gave us poltergeist, delicatessen, and kindergarten.
What is German?
400
A statement that sounds contradictory (opposite) but is true.
What is a paradox?
400
American flag. Wedding ring. Washington D.C. Hat off as funeral procession goes by. Cross.
What are symbols?
400
What branch of the armed forces did Donald Duck join cartoons published from 1942-1944?
What is the army.
500
A series of connected actions within a work that function separately from the MAIN plot.
What is a subplot.
500
Language from which we get machine, terrace, boulevard, and quiche.
What is French?
500
Sensory language appeals to what 5 senses?
What are taste, touch, smell, sound, & feeling.
500
Her red nail polish gleamed on the grill while the aroma of rancid hamburger meat touched my nose.
What is imagery?
500
In what state is AREA 51- the legendary location of alien space activity?
What is Nevada?
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