Elements of Narrative Structure
Inferencing and Character
Figurative Language
Multiple Meaning Words
Synonyms, Antonyms, and Context Clues
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This is a type of character who changes or is different by the end of the novel.
What is a dynamic character?
100
Here is an example of this type of characterization: Geraldine grinned as she stepped onto the stage, but froze as soon as the spotlight hit her. She looked down into the blackness of the audience, trying to find her sister, or her director, or possibly a place to unload the peanut-butter-and-confidence sandwich she had powered down just before the pageant. "Oh jeez," she thought, "I've done it now." She became aware of a distant plunking sound, from somewhere far away. Plunk-plunk-plu-unh-unh-unh-unk, it seemed to say. "Geral-DINE!" came a loud whisper. From who? From Mrs. Gribben, the director! And the plunking! It was the piano! Geraldine nodded firmly, opened her mouth, took a deep breath, and tried to project her voice. It would have worked, but only if she had been cast as the part of a rusty gate hinge.
What is indirect characterization?
100
Here is an example of this type of figurative language: As the well-fed boy sat in the chair, it groaned in protest and coughed dust all over the dirty basement.
What is personification?
100
A word that fits into the blanks of the following sentences: The frozen _____ is hard to dig up. She preferred freshly _____ coffee to the stuff that was already powdered in a bag.
What is "ground?"
100
A synonym for "potable" in the following sentence: One of the largest problems facing developing nations today is a lack of clean, fresh, potable water.
What is drinkable?
200
This is the most intense, exciting, or important portion of the plot of a literary work.
What is the climax?
200
We can infer that the character is at this place from the passage below: Clifford loved the blue plastic seats here. Dad had been taking him since he was just old enough to sit still for more than 5 minutes at a time. Cliff loved the scoreboard, the diamond pattern cut into the grass, and even the Kiss-Cam that highlighted embarrassed couples and too-old-to-care people or oblivious brother-and-sister pairs too busy arguing over their Dippin' Dots to notice. Once, when he was about 8, Cliff's dad had given him the old, scarred glove that had been his dad's when he was a boy. That day, Cliff recalled with a smile, he had caught a pop fly at the top of the fifth all on his own, and his dad had smiled.
What is a baseball diamond?
200
Here is an example of this type of figurative language: The car was a water buffalo recently attacked by a komodo dragon - it was not long for this world, but its end would cause much suffering and trauma for anyone having to watch it.
What is a metaphor?
200
A word that will fill in the blanks of the following two sentences: I hope to have a ____ box as great as my dad's when I take my own kids fishing one day. _____ football is way more fun than flag or two-hand-touch.
What is tackle?
200
An antonym for "garrulous" in the following sentence: Most of my students are extremely sociable and garrulous; I'm always having to ask them to stop their jibber jabber.
What is quiet?
300
This is an example of this type of conflict: She thought about how she'd treated her mother over the past few years, hung her head, and cried a wailing cry of shame.
What is internal conflict. Nope, it's not individual vs. individual because she's not actively treating her mother badly; she's thinking back on it and having an internal, emotional battle.
300
Here is an example of this type of characterization: Geraldine was nervous about her performance in the school play.
What is direct characterization?
300
A comparison between unlike things that uses like or as.
What is a simile?
300
The definition of the word "current" in the sentence below: It's easier to paddle a canoe with the current rather than against it.
What is the direction that water is flowing?
300
The relationship shared by "odious" and "commendable" in the following sentence: Some people thought that the cancellation of the show "The Magic School Bus" was an odious decision on the part of the executives of the television station, but some people thought that the program's end was a commendable move.
What are antonyms?
400
This is the lesson or moral that the author tries to teach her or his reading audience through a work.
What is theme?
400
We can infer that this is happening in the following passage: Leopold stood at the window and bounced up and down on his tiptoes. He peeked through the blinds like he had seen his cat, Lazy, do many times before. For the fourth time in the last 10 minutes, he raced around downstairs. He had to check on the banner with his name, the cake in the top of the refrigerator, the pink peppermint ice cream in the freezer, the Thomas the Train tablecloth and plates, and his train set in the living room. Quickly, he went back to his post at the window, keeping his eyes planted between the slats of the blinds for his friends.
What is a child's birthday party?
400
These two things are being compared in simile below: She was tall and gawky, like a baby giraffe.
What are a girl and a baby giraffe?
400
The definition of the word "lash" as it is used in the sentence below: The lash fell across the horse's back, urging it to move more quickly down the road.
What is a whip?
400
The meaning of the word "cacophony" in the sentence below: The cacophony of unpleasant noises coming from the frightened chickens in the hen house suggested that there was a raccoon or a fox inside.
What is a loud, unpleasant sound?
500
The following passage represents this part of the plot of the story "Cinderella." Cinderella and her mouse friends create a beautiful dress, but Cinderella's evil stepmother comes and trashes it, laughing that Cinderella thinks she'll go to the ball. Cinderella weeps, but then her fairy godmother comes to visit. The godmother transforms Cinderella's house dress into a beautiful gown, a pumpkin into a carriage, the mice into horses, and her wooden clogs into beautiful glass slippers. Cinderella is warned that her finery will return to its regular form at midnight, and she heads off to the ball. While there, she dances and falls in love with the handsome prince. Just as they are about to smooch, she realizes that it's just about midnight.
What is the rising action?
500
This list of character traits is indicative of this type of character. Rude, mean, unkind, unfriendly, gruff, curt, uncaring.
What is a flat character?
500
Figurative language that uses extreme exaggeration to show how an author feels about a particular topic.
What is hyperbole?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! THIS QUESTION IS WORTH 1,000 POINTS!! The meanings of the word "mint" in the following sentences: We took a tour of the mint, and I bought a sheet of uncut $100.00 bills! I was whispering to my friend in class when she offered me a mint.
What are a place where money is made and a breath-freshening candy?
500
The meaning of "hirsute" in the following sentence: The most hirsute man in America has hair growing from every part of his skin, including his palms and the bottoms of his feet.
What is "covered with hair or bristles?"
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