Plot
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Figurative Language
100

Who did research and learned that two thirds of kids worry about their working parents?

Ellen Galinsky

100

What word means fellow worker?

colleague

100

What word means increases as much as possible?

maximizes

100

What figurative language is this passage: "They race home to make it in time for their child's game . . ."?

metaphor

200

What tool did Sue Shellenbarger use to help her balance work and family life?

Books on time management

200

What word means joining by inserting and binding together?

spliced

200

What word means strong belief?

conviction

200

What literary device is this passage: " . . . Will's job was to ferry the ferrets back and forth. . ."?

alliteration

300
What is "daddy stress"?

trying to work and spend time with family

300

What word means journeyed?

trekked

300

What word means constant or habitual?

chronic

300

What figurative language is this passage: "The image of working parents as jugglers long ago entered . . ."?

metaphor

400

What experiment left Shellenbarger with little time for creativity?

trying to be a "blender"

400

What word means observable event, fact, or circumstance?

phenomenon

400

What word means combine or unify?

integrate

400

What figurative language is this passage: "And as Galinsky told Fortune's Cora Daniels . . ."?

allusion

500

What are the authors of these articles trying to say?

Workers need to balance their jobs and their family duties.

500

What word means emotionally moving or touching?

poignant

500

What word means independence?

autonomy

500

What literary device is this passage: "but it's not THAT we work, it's HOW we work."?

parallelism

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