Vocabulary
Grammar
Tears of a Tiger
Literary Terms
Misc.
100
A person who talks to you about your feelings and is called doctor, but who cannot prescribe medications.
What is a psychologist?
100
Correct the following sentence COMPLETELY: i just baught a house and its awesome.
What is : I just bought a house, and it's awesome.
100
Dr. Carrothers
Who is the psychologist that treats Andy?
100
A state of affairs that is DELIBERATELY the opposite of what you would expect and is often amusing. EXAMPLE: a pharmacist who doesn't believe in taking medication
What is irony?
100
Number of students in our class.
What is nine?
200
Fill in the blank (spelling the word correctly): The teenage girl had a car accident and her license was _________________ (taken away).
What is revoked?
200
Correct the sentence completely: how do you know if you is right asked john if you never find out the answer.
What is "How do you know if you are right," asked John, "if you never find out the answer?"
200
Andy's six year old brother
Who is Monty?
200
A simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compare using the words “like” or “as.” Hey, jumpin’ with Keisha is like touchin’ the sky.
What is a simile?
200
This is the last sentence in your introduction paragraph. It outlines what you are trying to argue in your essay.
What is a thesis statement?
300
Fill in the blank (spelling the word correctly): The watch was ______________(imprinted) with her initials.
What is engraved?
300
In this sentence you need there, their or they're? They decided to put up holiday decorations on _________ house.
What is THEIR?
300
This is what Doctor Carrothers assigns Andy to do (and give to) Rob's parents.
What is write them a letter explaining his feelings.
300
a figure of speech in which a comparison between two unlike objects is suggested or implied. We put it [beer] in the trunk of your car hours ago—Ain’t nothing like some cool bottled sunshine in the moonlight after a hot game!
What is a metaphor/
300
This is the editing checklist that we use in class.
What is COPS?
400
A fancy ball where teenage girls are presented.
What is a cotillion?
400
What is the missing piece of punctuation in this sentence? Its going to be great to have vacation next week!
What is an apostrophe? It's
400
This is the homework assignment that Andy completes but doesn't turn in to his English teacher.
What is a poem about how he is feeling.
400
In Tears of a Tiger, Sharon Draper uses many kinds of writing to tell her story.
What is a multi-genre text?
400
This is what Mrs. Little wants to see more of in reading comprehension answers.
What is evidence?
500
In Tears of a Tiger, the car accident and its results were ________________(very upsetting) to Rob's family, to Andy, and to their friends.
What is devastating?
500
In this sentence, two things don't match: The young man chuckle at the joke.
What are the noun/subject and the verb?
500
Describe how Andy is feeling in his last conversation with his mother. What is the analogy he uses for his feelings? What is his analogy trying to tell his mother?
What is Andy admitting to his mother that he almost drowned as a child and that is how he felt now. He tries to explain that he is suicidal and feels alone, but she brushes him off. He kills himself that night.
500
This is the message, or moral to a story, that the author is trying to tell the audience without saying it directly.
What is theme?
500
In an essay, this is what you need at the beginning of each body paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
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