English Terms
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The First Seven Years
Teacher's Choice
100
The character who sets the plot in motion.
What is the protagonist.
100
To draw back in fear, surprise, or disgust.
What is recoil.
100
A feeling of hatred; powerful and deep dislike.
What is antipathy.
100
Vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses—sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
What is imagery.
100
Recognized; perceived.
What is discerned.
200
Give an example of jargon.
Any answer that uses technical terms, acronyms, and language used by people of the same profession or specialized interest group will work.
200
Supreme; dominant.
What is paramount.
200
Dreamily thoughtful.
What is pensive.
200
A feeling of anxious curiosity about what is going to happen next in a story.
What is suspense.
200
Distasteful; offensive.
What is repugnant.
300
A reference to a person, place, event, or thing in history, myth, or another work of literature.
What is an allusion.
300
Never changing or varying; unchangeable.
What is immutable.
300
Stealthily; sneakily.
What is surreptiously.
300
Give an example of a theme from one of the stories we have read.
Any answer that explains the underlying or implicit meaning, concept, or message in a text (a significant observation about life that can be applied to life) will work.
300
Plentiful; given freely.
What is profuse.
400
Give an example of foreshadowing from one of the stories we have read.
Any example that explains hints or clues provided by the author as to events that are about to occur in the story will work.
400
What is the definition for inured?
What is accustomed to; used to (especially to something difficult or painful.)
400
What is the definition for luminous?
What is glowing; giving off light.
400
Give an example of an external conflict from one of the stories we have read and label it correctly as to one of the five types.
Any answer that is a struggle between a character and an outside force will work if it is lableled: person versus person, person versus society, person versus nature, or person versus “fate.”
400
What is the definition for deft?
What is skillful in a quick sure way.
500
Give an example of indirect characterization using one of the five different methods of indirect characterization.
Any example that explains that the author shows things that reveal aspects of the character while using a character's thoughts, speech, effect on others, actions, or looks will work.
500
What is the definition for ineffably?
What is indescribably; inexpressibly.
500
What is the definition for filial?
What is pertaining to or due from a son or daughter.
500
What is dialect?
The language spoken by the people of a particular place, time or social group (regional dialect: spoken in a specific geographic region –social dialect: spoken by members of a specific social group or class).
500
What is the definition for unscrupulous?
What is not restrained by ideas of right and wrong.
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