Lit. Terms
Foreign Words & Phrases
Potpourri
DOL
Keys to Literatue
100
thinking back to the past.
What is the meaning of Flashback
100
a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.
What does Faux Pas mean?
100
Name Two RYS classroom expectations?
follow school expectations positive interactions good conduct helping the group
100
More than a thousand years ago the Mayans and other peoples of Central America chewed chicle.
1. ago,
100
the time and place of a story
What is setting?
200
the use of context clues to predict events that have yet to happen.
What is the meaning of foreshadowing?
200
a school, college, or university at which one has studied and, usually, from which one has graduated.
What is the meaning of Alma mater?
200
True or false, if false must state the correct answer: In the story of the The Tell-Tale Heart, the old man was buried outside in the back yard.
False.
200
Directions can some times be confusing and hard to follow, but the directions for preventing scurvy are easy.
1. sometimes 2. are
200
the feeling you get from reading a story.
What is mood?
300
A play on words
What is the meaning of the word pun?
300
mode of operating or working.
What is the meaning of Modus operandi?
300
to leave one country to settle in another.
What is the meaning of emigrated?
300
We know today that Vitamin c, or ascorbic acid, is necessary for the formation of tendons, ligaments, bones, and cartilage
1. vitamin 2. C 3. acid,
300
the person telling the story.
What is a narrator?
400
Figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory ideas.
What is the definition of an oxymoron?
400
through my fault; my fault (used as an acknowledgment of one's responsibility).
What is the meaning of Mea culpa
400
What does a slurp sound like?
answers may vary
400
All creatures great and small is a true heartwarming story written by james herriot.
1. All Creatures Great and Small=needs to be underlined 2. true, 3. James 4. Herriot.
400
making something seem worse or better than it really is.
What is the meaning of the term exaggeration?
500
exageration or overstatement.
What is hyperbole?
500
1. one thing in return for another. 2. something that is given or taken in return for something else; substitute.
What is the meaning of Quid pro qua
500
What happened in the story, After Twenty Years?
answers may vary
500
after injecting the cow with medicine herriott told the farmer the only hope was to rub the udder as often as possable
1. After 2. medicine, 3. Herriott 4. Herriot 5. possible
500
showing how two things are alike or different.
What is the meaning of comparison?
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