Word Wall/ Roots
Shurley
Point of View
Figurative Language
Literature
100
Willing to take risks; daring, showing disrespect or lack of courtesy
What is audacious?
100
Pattern 2
What is (SN V-t DO)?
100
Third person pronouns include
What are he, him, his, himself, she, her, hers, herself, it, its, itself, they, them, their, theirs, and themselves?
100
- Calm and chaos
- Civilization and wilderness
- Dark and light
- Despair and hope
- Fact and fiction
- Foolish and serious
- Good and bad
What is juxtaposition?
juxtaposition- two contrasting concepts side by side
100
The name of the Island in the Most Dangerous Game
What is Shiptrap Island?
200
Large in quantity; abundant.
What is copious?
200
This part of speech functions to express a state of being.
What is a linking verb?
200
A point of view which tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings
What is third person objective point of view?
200
An example of a hyperbole
What is (example of a hyperbole)?
hyperbole- exaggeration
"I was driving a thousand miles per hour!"
200
Four characters from The Outsiders are
What are Ponyboy, Darrell, Two-Bit Mathews, Sodapop, Curly...?
300
Loquor
What is to talk, to speak?
300
An OCN
What is an object complement noun?
300
The point of view from the excerpt of The Gift of the Magi
"Now, there were two possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took a mighty pride. One was Jim's gold watch that had been his father's and his grandfather's. The other was Della's hair."
What is third person objective point of view?
300
Figurative language in this excerpt of the poem Caged Bird
"...But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing..."
What is anaphora?
anaphora- the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning
his, his, his
300
Lemon Brown gave this to his son to show him he could be anything he wanted to be.
What is a harmonica and newspaper clippings?
400
An example of the word ostentatious in a sentence
What is (example sentence)?
Ostentatious- extravagantly showy; ornate
400
The pattern of this sentence.
That large book on the shelf is a dictionary.
What is pattern 4, (SN, LV, PrN)?
400
The point of view of the excerpt from The Ransom of Red Chief
"Gentlemen: I received your letter about the ransom you ask for the return of my son. I think you are a little high in your demands. I hereby make you a counter-proposal, which I believe you will accept. You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars, and I agree to take him off your hands. You had better come at night because the neighbors believe he is lost. And, I could not be responsible for what they would do to anybody they saw bringing him back. Very respectfully, Ebenezer Dorset."
What is first person point of view?
400
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant.
What is metonymy?
Example: The crown for all royalty.
400
The Red Death
What is a disease; you die in half an hour, you ooze blood, get dizzy, and have pains?
500
An example of a word with the root fido
What is to trust, have faith? What is confide, confidential, confident?
500
The pattern of this sentence.
Nancy painted the room green.
What is pattern 7, (SN, V-t, DO, OCA)?
500
The point of view which allows us to only know the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is third person limited point of view?
500
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
What is alliteration?
alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
500
Example of internal conflict in The Most Dangerous Game.
What is Rainsford's recognition that there is a fine line between the hunter and the hunted?