Vocabulary
To officially cancel or take back a decision or statement.
What is revoke?
The correct "there," "their," or "they're" used to show possession.
What is "their"?
Lennie states he likes to put this on his beans.
What is ketchup?
A classic children's book in which a young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
What is The Polar Express?
This literary term refers to the person the audience is rooting for in a story, often the main character.
A person who supports or promotes a cause or idea.
What is an advocate?
The part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses.
What is a conjunction?
Before coming to the ranch on which the story takes place, Lennie and George work in this town.
What is Weed?
In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," this magical country is the main setting, which is accessed by the main characters through a wardrobe.
What is Narnia?
Manga novels come from this country.
What is Japan?
A feeling of deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed.
What is remorse?
The "affect" or "effect" that shows the result of an action.
What is effect?
Slim gifts this to Lennie.
What is a puppy?
"Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus," translated as "Never Touch a Sleeping Dragon," is the official motto for this fictional place of learning.
What is Hogwarts?
This Lois Lowry book centers on protagonist Jonas's apprenticeship to become his utopian society's Receiver of Memory.
What is The Giver?
Very dangerous or deadly.
What is lethal?
Use this punctuation mark to set off extra information or non-essential clauses.
What is a comma?
The title of Candy's job on the ranch.
What is a swamper?
Aunt Em and Uncle Henry are the caretakers of this famed female protagonist portrayed by Judy Garland.
Who is Dorothy Gale?
Figurative Language: "She kicked the bucket."
What is an idiom?
Very careful with details.
Meticulous.
This tense describes an action that was completed before another past action.
What is past perfect?
This minor character serves as foreshadowing for Lennie's tragic death.
The famed author of The Outsiders and Rumble Fish who set her 2004 novel, Hawkes Harbor, in Delaware.
Who is SE Hinton?
The name for the symbol "&".
What is an ampersand?