ELA General Knowledge
What do you call the most exciting, intense, dramatic part of a story?
The Climax
What is the name of the protagonist in The Giver?
Jonas
What is the name of Ponyboy's two brothers?
Sodapop and Darry.
A story that takes place in a future where everything is horrible and corrupt is called a ___ story.
Dystopian
What is a heater?
A handgun
What are the Fab 4 Reading Skills we used this year?
Predicting, Clarifying, Questioning, and Summarizing
What is the name of the job that the main character of The Giver is assigned?
The receiver of memories
Where is Dally from originally?
New York
This year we read a story called Lamb to the Slaughter where a woman murdered her husband. What murder weapon did she use?
A frozen leg of lamb.
Croon
To hum or sing in a soft, low voice
What is it called when an author hints at something that will happen later on in the story?
Foreshadowing
How does everyone get around in The Community?
Riding Bikes
Whose house do Ponyboy and Johnny visit to find Dally after Bob's death?
Buck Merril's
This year we read a myth about a character named Icarus. How did this character die?
He flew too close to the sun which ruined his wings, causing him to fall in the ocean and drown.
Treacherous
Guilty of or involving betrayal or deception.
What do you call the beginning of a story, where we learn: background info, character names, setting, and other information needed to understand the rest of a story?
Exposition
What do we end up learning about how the world looks to everyone in the Community?
What was the name of Sodapop's horse?
Mickey Mouse
This year we read the myth of Phaethon. Which god was Phaethon's father?
Apollo
Emphatically
Strongly stated with emphasis.
Hyperbole
How does the main character hide himself from the heat sensors on the search planes?
By thinking of the memory of snow.
What was the name of the Soc who fights Darry at the rumble?
Paul Holden
This year we read a short story called The Lottery. In this story when someone won the lottery, what was their prize?
Being murdered.
Appalled
Greatly dismayed or horrified