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Bedtime Stories
Parts of speech
Literary Terms
Vocabulary Review
100

Please finish the following statement:   Pretty girls saying....

What is ugly things.

100

Who wrote, "Thank you, Ma'am"?

Who is Langston Hughes/

100

What is a noun?

What is a person, place or thing?

100

What is a symbol?

What is an object, person, or event that represents something beyond its literal meaning.  It's a way to convey deeper meanings or ideas.


Example:  A red rose symbolizes love and passion.

100

What does ubiquitous mean?

What is every where?

200

Please finish the following statement:  No one ever died from....

What is being too smart.

200

Please summarize "The Veldt".

A story about a modern house.  The children have a virtual nursery in which they choose to kill their parents.

200

What is a verb?

What is a word that shows action or state of being?

200

What is a metaphor?

What is a figure of speech that compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as."  It states that one thing is another to highlight similarities.


Example:  "Time is a thief".

200

What does incentive mean?

What is a reason to do something?

300

Please finish the following statement:  I set the bar high...

I expect for you to reach for it.

300

Who wrote "The Veldt"?

Who is Ray Bradbury?

300

This joins two sentences or words.

What is a conjunction?

300

What is an idiom?

What is a phrase where the meaning is not deducible from the individual word's meanings but has a culturally understood meaning.


300

What does suffrage mean?

What is the right to vote?

400

Please finish the following statement:  If everyone is jumping off the bridge...

What is are you going to also?

400

What is the poem that we read in which a man had to cremate his friend?

What is "The Cremation of Sam McGee"?

400

This part of speech shows how many there are?

What is a pronoun?

400

What is a simile?

What is a figure of speech that compares tow unlike things using "like" or "as".

400

What does daunting mean?

What is to frighten or intimidate.

500

Please finish the following statement...If you are not fifteen minutes early..

What is you are late?

500

What is the main character's name in "The Landlady"?

Who is Billy Weaver?

500

Name all five of the conjunctions...

What are:  for, and, nor, but, or and yet.

500

What is Onomatopoeia?

What are words that imitate the natural sounds associated with the objects or actions they describe,


Example:  "The bees buzzed around the flowers".  Buzz mimics the sounds that bees make.

500

What is the opposite of disperse?

What is to come together?

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