Vocabulary
Identifying Sound Devices
Identifying Figures of Speech
The 1930's
Reading Strategies
100
The main character in any text.
Protagonist
100
Identify the sound device: The pitter patter of little feet could be heard walking down the hall.
Consonance
100
Identify the figure of speech: Your love has be buzzin like a street light.
Simile
100
What was a nickname for the 1930's.
The Dirty 30's, the Dust Bowl, or The Great Depression
100
What does explicit mean?
It's directly stated in the text.
200
The dictionary definition
Literal
200
Identify the sound device: The boom of the cannon shook the ground.
Onomatopoeia
200
Identify the figure of speech: She worked her fingers to the bone.
Hyperbole
200
What caused the economic depression in the 1930's?
The Stock Market Crash
200
What do you need to think about when you make an inference?
What you know about the real world and the book.
300
How an author organizes a text.
Structure
300
Identify the sound device: Baby now we've got bad blood.
Alliteration
300
Identify the figure of speech: As horror looks you right between the eyes.
Personification
300
How did farmer make the drought worse?
They over plowed the fields
300
What kind of questions has implicit answers with explicit evidence?
Thick
400
How the reader feels about the text.
Mood
400
Identify the sound device: If only you saw what I can see, you'd understand why I want you so desperately, right now I'm looking at you and I can't believe.
Assonance
400
Identify the figure of speech: You're my kryptonite
Metaphor
400
How did families keep dust out of their houses?
They put wet clothes around the windows.
400
What do you have to include when you visualize using a drawing?
Caption/Description
500
Comparing two different ideas or concepts.
Analogy
500
Identify the sound device: Welcome to the new age, to the new age Whoa, I'm radioactive, radioactive.
Repetition
500
Identify the figure of speech: She's as bright as the sun.
Simile
500
What part of Oklahoma did Out of the Dust take place in?
The panhandle
500
When you visualize using descriptive writing, what do you have to include?
Your five senses as well as how you emotionally feel.
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