Figurative Language
Stories We Have Read
literary vocabulary
The Call of the Wild
stuff
100
Extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
100
In the story "Too Soon A Woman" what did the girl eat to save the kids?
What is a mushroom
100
To make a guess based on the information you have
What is inference
100
Who wrote "The Call of the Wild"?
Jack London
100
What was the first word Helen Keller learned to sign?
water
200
To compare two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile
200
In "The Tell-Tale Heart" why did the narrator kill the old man?
His eye was bothering him
200
The meaning, message, lesson of a story
What is theme
200
Where did Buck originally live?
In the "southland" AKA California
200
What is a paragraph called in poetry?
stanza
300
To give human characteristics to a non-human
What is personification
300
In the story "The Old Wise Woman" how old were you when you were sent away to die?
71
300
The main character of a story
What is protagonist
300
Where did Buck spend most of his life?
The Canadian Yukon
300
What is Pandora's husband's name?
What is Epimetheus
400
the repetition of a consonant sound
What is alliteration
400
In the narrative "Unbroken" what happened to Lauren Bendesky?
She had cancer
400
When the opposite of what you expect to happen, happens
What is irony
400
What was the name of the man Buck loved who was later killed by Indians?
John Thornton
400
What are four of the "man vs." conflicts
Man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. machine
500
To place two contradictory words together
What is oxymoron
500
In the narrative about the girl in the gang, what book did she read that changed her life?
Anne Frank
500
A word, picture, or idea that represents something else
What is a symbol
500
What was the name of the dog that Buck killed?
Spitz
500
What is the name of the dog that Buck killed?
Spitz
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