Rev It Up:Vocabulary
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100

The vocabulary word that means a person who is stingy and doesn't want to give anything away. 

What is miserly?

100
The suffix that many adverbs end in.

What is -ly?

100

A central message, moral, or lesson in a story.

What is theme?

100

The genre of Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed by Ray Bradbury.

What is science fiction?

100

The year that The Great Depression began.

What is 1929?

200

The vocabulary word that means someone who is wise and gives good advice.

What is sagacious?

200
A noun that shows ownership. 

What is a possessive noun?

200

When a story is told from this point of view, the narrator is not a character in the story. 

What is third-person point of view?

200

The famous Asian American author who wrote, "Two Kinds" from The Joy Luck Club

Who is Amy Tan?

200
The places that Scrooge suggests that the poor be sent during the play set in the 1800s.

What are workhouses and prisons?

300

The vocabulary word that means empty, dry, or unable to grow things.

What is barren?

300
A sentence that consists of two or more independent clauses linked by a conjunction such as and, but, or or. 

What is a compound sentence?

300

A comparison in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. 

What is personification?

300

The name of the planet where Meg in A Wrinkle in Time finds her father. 

What is Camazotz? 

300

The pilot who landed a plane in the Hudson River. 

Who is "Sully" Sullenberger?

400
The vocabulary word that means people who are kind and patient.

What is benevolent?

400

The purpose of an adjective in a sentence.

What is modify or describe a noun or pronoun?

400

The attitude of the speaker or narrator in a text.

What is tone?

400

The amount of money that Scrooge pays his clerk, Bob Cratchit, in A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley.

What is 15 shillings?

400

During the 1930s and 40s, this was a popular form of entertainment.

What are radio plays?

500

The vocabulary word that means you suffer and become weak.

What is languish? 

500

The degree of adjective or adverb used when three or more things are being compared. 

What is the superlative degree?

500

Instructions for actors on how to move and speak, or it describes what the stage should look and sound like. 

What are stage directions?

500

The three brothers in The Outsiders

Who are Ponyboy, Soda Pop, and Darry?

500

The curly-haired child movie star from the 30s that Jing-Mei's mother in "Two Kinds" wants her to look like. 

Who is Shirley Temple?

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