Vocabulary
This type of apartment is usually located in a poor area of a city.
Tenement
This type of trip is long and often over water or space
Voyage
This type of word shows where something is in space or time, like “under” or “before”
Preposition
This was the most famous U.S gateway for immigrants
Staten or Ellis Island
This is the highest grossing film of all time
Avatar
This happens when a story goes back in time to show something from the past
Flashback
This type of resources is something we can mine, like gold
Natural resource
This type of word modifies verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs
Adverb
This was a major problem with tenement housing
Poor living conditions
This is the year the first man stepped foot on the moon
1964
This refers to the time and place where a story happens
Setting
This word means giving human traits to something non human
Personification
This is the grammatical term for the word a pronoun refers to
Antecedent
This was Francine’s favorite place to read
The fire escape
This is the number of bones a shark has
0
This word describes a conversation between characters in a story
Dialogue
This happens when to words end with the same sound
Rhyme
This punctuation mark is used around what someone says
Quotation marks
This Asian country is the setting for the poem “The Lotus Seed”
Vietnam
This was Nintendo’s best selling video game console
Nintendo DS
This word means someone has been saved from a dangerous situation
Rescued
This word describes something related to the moon
Lunar
This type of word sounds the same as another, but is spelled different and has a different meaning
Homophone
The lotus seed in the poem represents this
Memory or tradition
This is the oldest active NBA player
Lebrun James