Vocabulary
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Related Meanings
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Strong feelings of disapproval and hatred.
What is contempt?
100
underline the title, now predict, run through and number the paragraphs, are you reading the questions?, are the important words underlined?, eliminate wrong answers, and let the questions be answered
What is UNRAAVEL?
100
How a text makes the reader feel.
What is mood?
100
Which of the following is an example of dialect? A) "Can I take your hat and coat, sir?" B) "Your lunch is served, sir." C) "That girl!" D) "I clean forgot it."
D) "I clean forgot it."
100
Which word is most closely related in meaning to dismay? A) alarmed B) confident C) confused D) excited
C) confused
200
A painful inner feeling coming from doing something dishonorable or wrong.
What is shame?
200
Fact & Opinion, Cause & Effect, Order of Importance, and Compare & Contrast
What are organizational structures?
200
The emotions associated with a word.
What is connotation?
200
Which best describes the effect of third person omniscient point of view? A) It gives the reader more information than any of the characters and creates dramtic irony. B) It helps create tension because the reader knows no more than any of the other characters. C) It reveals details about one character and helps the reader understand that character. D) It gives the reader information about of each of the characters, which helps the reader understand their interactions.
D) It gives the reader information about of each of the characters, which helps the reader understand their interactions.
200
Which word is most closely related in meaning to the meaning of detained? A) hold back B) go free C) uncontrollable D) dishonest
A) hold back
300
To wait to act because of fear or doubt.
What is hesitate?
300
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution
What are the parts of a plot?
300
Comparing two alike things.
What is an analogy?
300
Read the following analogy: "Anxiously I sas down and went over them and if I had foudn the elixier of life I should have felt better than I did when I concieved a hope that a tour of the world might be made in less than eighty days." What is the meaning of the analogy?
What is "considering touring the world in less than eighty days gives the main character a new energy for life."
300
Which word is most closely related in meaning to the word shame? A) strong anger B) inner feeling of guilt C) questioning D) negative surprise
B) inner feeling of guilt
400
Someone who is a ________ has new ideas that may be very difficult to achieve.
What is a visionary?
400
missing information, when the author is trying to persuade the reader, and using past experiences
What are author's biases?
400
The author’s attitude toward a subject.
What is tone?
400
Read the following sentence: "'Very well,' I said angrily, 'Start the main, and I'll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him.'" What theme is reflected in the sentence?
What is determination?
400
Which word is most closely related in meaning to the word attractive? A) appealing B) lovely C) adorable D) fascinating
A) appealing
500
Someone who is a _________ thinks that they are the best and no one is "good enough" for them.
What is vain?
500
restate the question, answer part A, restate part B, answer part B, give examples from the prompt, add a conclustion
How do you answer a constructed response question?
500
When the reader knows something that characters don't.
What is dramatic irony?
500
Which of the following statements is a opinion disguised as a fact? A) The first superhero was Superman, debuting in 1938. B) The first female superhero was Fantomach, a minor character who debuted in 1940. C) Sidekicks are seen as a seperate classification of superheros. D) Superheros became populuar during World War II.
C) Sidekicks are seen as a seperate classification of superheros.
500
Knowing the meaning of the word fable helps a reader to know that fabled means? A) fatal B) famous C) faint D) faithful
B) famous
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