Literary Terms
This is the term for a type of text feature authors use to organize sections about different topics.
Sub headings/sub titles
What was the setting of chapter 1, The Great Plague? (date AND location)
London, English 1664
This terms means the universal truth or important message conveyed all throughout a text.
Theme
This is the term for an occurrence, such as illness, happening world wide.
Pandemic
True or False: when test taking, words like ALL NONE ALWAYS NEVER are red flag words and most likely mean that answer choice is NOT correct.
TRUE
This is the term for groups of letters at the beginning or ending or root words that can alter their meaning.
affixes
What comparison does the author draw between people during the plague years (1660's) and people living through the modern day Covid-19 pandemic?
This is the type of text structure that uses dates and times to organize information in a linear order.
Chronological
This word means a sense that something bad or scary is about to happen.
Ominous
True or False: It is best to read the passage then the questions.
FALSE: It is best practice to read the questions first.
This is the term for how poems are organized (groups of lines.)
Stanzas
What was John Graunt's initial discovery about plague deaths discovered by studying the Bills of Mortality?
Plague commonly followed sickly years.
This is an example of what kind of text structure:
Cassie first had to wash her hands thoroughly.
Afterwards, she put on the blue rubber gloves.
Once those were on properly, she then picked up the equipment and began the scientific experiment.
Sequential
This word means being dirtied as a result of coming into contact with something harmful.
contaminate
This is another word for main or cental idea.
gist
This the term for the most intense moment of a story
Climax
This is the term people in the 19th century believed caused most diseases (word for dirty air)
Miasma
"Killing two birds with one stone" is what kind of figurative language?
Idiom
This word means gloomy or depressing.
Dismal
The following is an example of what type of literary device:
She could see the knife glinting in his hand. Then it was done, a smooth, quick, cut on her arm. Blood dripped into the cup he held up. Her head thudded and the room seemed to lift, tilt, and spin.
Imagery
This is the term for the part of a word that gives it it's meaning
root
What was the name of the scientist who was coined as the first to isolate the bacteria that caused the plague?
Alexander Yersin
This is what type of text structure:
Calvin was terrified to begin his speech to the entire 8th grade. He really wanted to be class president, but public speaking was one of his worst fears. It was his dream to be a politician and so he told himself this was the first step in overcoming his fears. He picked up the microphone and declared confidently "Hello, classmates."
Narrative
This is the word that means to inject through the human body.
intravenously
Identify the affixes and root of the word and the definition of:
incomprehensible
Prefix: in
root: comprehend
suffix: ible
meaning: not able to understand