Literary Terms 1
Literary Terms 2
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Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry
100
What is conflict?
A struggle between opposing forces.
100
What is dialogue?
A conversation between 2 or more characters.
100
What is a synonym for labor?
Work
100
What happened to Leslie in Bridge to Terabithia?
She was going to Terabithia when the rope broke and she drowned.
100
Who are the 2 main characters of the story?
Little Man and Cassie
200
What is the setting?
The time and location a story takes place.
200
What is a moral?
A lesson about what is right or wrong in a literary work.
200
What does discrimination mean?
Treating one group unfairly from another.
200
What is an antonym to light.
Dark
200
Why is Cassie excited in the beginning of the story?
Because she believes that she is getting new books.
300
What is plot?
The sequence of events in a story.
300
What is imagery?
The use of vivid language to describe things.
300
What does function mean?
The usual purpose of a thing.
300
What is a synonym to pretty?
Beautiful
300
What does Little Man do to his book?
He throws it on the floor and jumps on it.
400
What is repetition?
The act of saying or doing something again.
400
What is chracterization?
The creation and development of someone or something in a story.
400
What does affect mean?
To make someone feel strong emotions.
400
Why is Connie embarrased of her mother in Abuela Invents a Zero?
because her grandmother is different from her and Connie is worried her friends will make fun of her grandmother.
400
What happens to Cassie at the end of the story?
She defends Little Man and the teacher, Miss Crocker beats Cassie as well because Cassie returns her book to her.
500
What is onomatopoeia? Give an example of one.
Words which sound like sounds. Boom, bang, crash.
500
What is point of view? What are the two types?
The perspective the author uses to tell a story. First person and third person.
500
What does trend mean?
A tendency in the way things are changing or developing.
500
What did the 2 brothers in Two Brothers and a Pumpkin Seed find in their pumpkins?
Chang found gold coins, Kim found bugs and snakes.
500
What is the setting of Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry?
Oklahoma in the 1930s
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