Literature Terminology
Grammar
Vocabulary
Introduction to Geography
Ancient Greece
50
The person or character who tells the events of a story.
What is a narrator?
50
A noun
What is a person, place, thing, or idea?
50
A way of organizing books based on similar characteristics.
What is a genre?
50
The theme of geography that refers to where something is.
What is location?
50
The sea that is marked by the orange star.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
The lesson or moral of a story.
What is a theme?
100
A verb
What is an action word?
100
Having the ability to keep working without getting tired.
What is stamina?
100
An icon that is added to a map that displays the cardinal directions.
What is a compass rose?
100
The leader of the Olympians and god of the sky.
Who is Zeus?
150
A conclusion made from text evidence and background knowledge.
What is an inference?
150
An adjective
What is a describing word?
150
a group of letters attached to the beginning or end of a word to change its meaning.
What is an affix?
150
The theme of geography that explains the relationship between people and their environment.
What is human-environment interaction?
150
The two types of plays that were common in Ancient Greece.
What are comedy and tragedy?
200
A scene in a book or movie that is set in an earlier time than the main story.
What is a flashback?
200
a proper noun
What is a noun that has a specific name or title and therefore must be capitalized?
200
To study something closely to better understand it.
What is analyze?
200
The lines of latitude and longitude that divide the globe into four different hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian and the Equator?
200
The first one was held in 776 BCE as a festival to honor Zeus.
What are the Olympics?
250
How the author describes the situation or climate of a story so that the reader understands how the characters might be feeling.
What is the mood or tone?
250
A common noun
What is a noun that refers to something in general, and therefore we do not capitalize it?
250
A short part of a text, film, or song.
What is an excerpt?
250
The seven continents of the world.
What are: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America
250
The twin children of Zeus and at least one of their symbols.
Who is Apollo and has the symbols of the lyre or the sun?
Who is Artemis and has the symbols of the moon or the deer?
300
The three types of point of view that are used in fictional texts.
What is first person, second person, and third person point of view?
300
An adverb
What is a word that describes how you do something?
300
A commonly held idea about a person or thing that is often untrue or over simplified.
What is a stereotype?
300
A small map that is included as part of a larger map that helps you understand where the main map can be found within the world.
What is a locator map?
300
The landform that is located at the point of the orange star.
What is Mt. Olympus?
350
The highest point of interest or intensity in a story that is also often recognized as a turning point.
What is the conflict?
350
A pronoun
What is a word that is used in place of a noun?
350
Stated or explained in full detail, leaving no doubt.
What is explicit?
350
A kind of map that uses different colors to separate different states or countries.
What is a political map?
350
The god of fire and the blacksmith of Olympus.
Who is Hephaestus?
400
The part of the story that includes background information and helps "set the stage" for the story.
What is the exposition?
400
An antecedent
What is a word that refers to a noun that is later replaced by a pronoun?
400
The positive or negative meaning that is associated with a word.
What is a connotation?
400
The three things that we refer to as "moving" when talking about the movement theme of geography.
What are people, goods, and culture (or ideas)
400
The land area that is marked by the orange star.
What is Peloponnesus?
450
A term that refers to the correct order of events in a story.
What is a sequence?
450
A subject of a sentence
What is the noun that is doing the action in a sentence?
450
Teasing with the sight, smell, or promise of something.
What is tantalizing?
450
The three types of regions referred to as part of the region theme of geography.
What are formal regions, functional regions, and perceptual regions?
450
The name of the individual who made significant changes to the health and medical practices of Ancient Greece?
Who is Hippocrates?
500
The 5 types of external conflicts.
What are:
character vs. character
character vs. nature
character vs. technology
character vs. society
character vs. supernatural
500
A predicate
What is the main action that the subject of the sentence is doing?
500
To make a strong effort to make something happen.
What is endeavored?
500
A map scale.
What is a measuring tool that can show the relationship between the distance shown on a map and the real distance on Earth?
500
The city-state that is marked by the orange star?
What is Athens?