ELA: Beyond the Basics
This character or force works against the protagonist.
What is the antagonist?
The federal government is divided into this many branches.
What is three?
Meaning “land between rivers,” this ancient region lay between the Tigris and Euphrates.
What is Mesopotamia?
The chemical symbol “K” represents this element.
What is potassium?
This short man climbed a sycamore tree so he could see Jesus.
Who is Zacchaeus?
This term describes the emotional or cultural meaning associated with a word, beyond its dictionary definition.
What is connotation?
The president leads this branch of government.
What is the executive branch?
Signed in 1215, this document limited the English king’s power.
What is the Magna Carta?
This continent is classified as Earth’s largest desert.
What is Antarctica?
These four books are known collectively as the Gospels.
What are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
An indirect reference to a famous person, event, story, or work is called this.
What is an allusion?
Congress belongs to this branch, which creates federal laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This term describes the transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and goods between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This instrument measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is the final book of the Old Testament.
What is Malachi?
This narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of every character.
What is a third-person omniscient narrator?
These are the two chambers that make up Congress.
What are the House of Representatives and the Senate?
This 1919 treaty formally ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers after World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This planet takes longer to complete one rotation than it takes to orbit the Sun.
What is Venus?
These are the only two Bible books named after women.
What are Ruth and Esther?
“Less is more” is an example of this seemingly contradictory but meaningful statement.
What is a paradox?
This system allows each branch to limit the power of the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
During the Cold War, this American policy sought to prevent communism from spreading to additional countries.
What is containment?
The chemical symbol “W” represents this metal.
What is tungsten?
At 176 verses, this is the longest chapter in the Bible.
What is Psalm 119?