What they Don't Tell You About Hurricanes
Upright Pronoun
Vocabulary Unit 10
Parts of Speech
Mr. Weir
100
This is the name of the hurricane that Phillip Gerard writes about.
What is hurricane Fran?
100
This was the tool (that could be used as a weapon) given to the inmate to use in the saddle shed.
What is a knife?
100
This word means an introduction to a piece of writing.
What is "preamble"?
100
This part of speech describes a person, place or thing.
What is a noun?
100
This is the number of years Mr. Weir has been teaching at Winchester High School.
What is two? (Or 1.8)
200
This is the pronoun used to shift the focus from the narrator to the community.
What is "you"?
200
This was the object used to obscure the events taking place on June 4th 1989 in Tiananmen Square.
What is black cloth?
200
This word is a antonym for "rehearsed."
What is "extemporaneous"?
200
"Angry," and "peaceful" are examples of this part of speech.
What is an adjective?
200
This is the name of the college that Mr. Weir attended.
What is The Evergreen State College?
300
This was the narrator's prized possession that was destroyed by hurricane Fran.
What is a yacht?
300
This is the described shift in psychic distance between the beginning and middle sections of "God of the Rodeo."
What is intermediate to close.
300
"Impair" is an example of this part of speech.
What is a verb?
300
This part of speech can be either transitive or intransitive.
What is a verb?
300
This English teacher taught Mr. Weir while he was a student at Winchester High School
Who is Mr. Skinder, Mr. Waddell, or Mrs. Evrigenis?
400
This was the item that was paradoxically left sitting on top of a fence post while an enormous oak tree nearby was ripped up by the roots.
What is a pair of work gloves?
400
"Us" is an example of this kind of pronoun.
What is first person?
400
"Adept" is an example of these two parts of speech.
What noun and adjective?
400
"For," "and," "nor," "but," "or," "yet," and "so" are examples of this part of speech.
What is a coordinating conjunction?
400
This was the year Mr. Weir graduated from Winchester High School.
What is 2002?
500
This is the name of the narrator's yacht.
What is Savoir-Faire
500
These are the three parts of narrative stance.
What are point of view, tone, and psychic distance?
500
This word derives from the Old English word "cidan," meaning "to complain, to quarrel, to contend."
What is "chide"?
500
In the sentence, "Their running was quite impressive," the word "running" is this part of speech.
What is a gerund?
500
This was the name of the late plant in Mr. Weir's room.
What is Theophilus?
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