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100
What is the horror story about the murder of an elderly man in his bed written by Edgar Allen Poe?
The Tell Tale Heart
100
An author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to their work. It appeals to human senses to deepen the reader's understanding of the work. Ex: He had a _cold_ stare that forced fear into the heart of the weak.
Imagery
100
Poetry, Fiction, Drama, and Non-fiction are all examples of:
A Genre
100
The Pigman
Paul Zindel wrote this novel in 1968 about two teens and their relationship with an older gentleman.
100
What is the name of the star that played the character of "Katniss" in the Hunger Game series of novels.
Jennifer Lawrence
200
What is the name of J.K. Rowling's 5th Harry Potter Book?
The Order of the Phoenix
200
A word that imitates the sound it represents. Ex: Bang! Boom!
Onomatopoeia
200
Make logical guesses by considering the text and your own experiences.
Inferences
200
Author of fan favorites "The Shining", "It", and "Pet Cemetary"
Stephen King
200
Alan Menkin
Favorite Disney composer that wrote music for works like, the Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and Pocahontas that have each won him two Academy Awards.
300
What is the name of the novel written by Mark Twain depicting the adventures of a young man along the Mississippi River written in 1885? It was a sequel to the novel written about the hero's best friend Tom Sawyer.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
300
Is when a writer assigns human qualities to inanimate objects. Ex: the tree swayed in the wind
Personification
300
Find something you can personally relate to.
Making Connections
300
Wrote "The taming of the shrew", "a Midsummer Night's Dream", and "Romeo and Juliet"
William Shakespeare
300
Lorde - "Royals"
2014 Grammy Song of the Year
400
Written and Created by George Lucas. This Science Fiction Series has helped to shape modern science and pop culture today.
Star Wars
400
a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar or bear resemblence. Ex: "Our country is a fortress of freedom for the oppressed."
metaphor
400
A type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in a precise way to create certain sounds and meanings.
Poetry
400
Wrote the Harry Potter Series
J. K. Rowling
400
This person was born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii. This person is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where this person served as president of the Harvard Law Review and worked as a civil rights attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Who is this former teacher?
The current and 44th president of the United States of America President Barack Obama.
500
Written by Veronica Roth, the heroin of this novel, Beatrice Prior, is a teenager with a special mind, she finds her life threatened when an authoritarian leader seeks to exterminate her kind in her effort to seize control of their divided society.
Divergent
500
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear to be in conjunction. Ex: A peaceful war
Oxymoron
500
Which STAAR reading strategy uses a recall of what you already know about a topic.
Use of background knowledge
500
Wrote the "Old man and the Sea"
Ernest Hemingway
500
A German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.
Albert Einstein
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