Vocabulary
Point of View/Author's Purpose
Poetry
Drama
Literary Terms
100
Read the following sentences and use context clues to figure out what the word propel means. Which words help the reader know what propel means? This motion begins at the head and travels down the body toward the tail. This propels the fish forward rather than letting the water pull him backward.
What are the words "fish forward or this motion"?
100
Name the three purposes from which an author can write.
What are persuade, inform, and entertain?
100
Narrative-Humorous-Lyrical-Free Verse
What are the 4 types of poetry?
100
The part of the drama that details the time and place.
What is setting?
100
Name the following literary term. passionate is to enthusiastic as disinterested is to bored
What is an analogy?
200
Read the sentence and define the word overjoyed. This was Nathan's first issue, and he was overjoyed to see it had arrived. Nathan felt sure he would not be disappointed.
What is very happy?
200
Name the author's purpose. An author writes to give mainly factual information, usually non-fiction based.
What is inform?
200
The division of poetry. A set of lines in poetry placed together and divided with line breaks.
What is stanza?
200
The part of the drama that names the speaking parts.
What is the cast or actors?
200
Name the literary term (flowed like a stream). Hannah's tears flowed like a stream during the saddest part of the movie.
What is a simile?
300
Using the following sentence, complete the analogy below. This was Nathan's first issue, and he was overjoyed to see it had arrived. Nathan felt sure he would not be disappointed. overjoyed is to disappointed as frustrated is to
What is calm or pleased?
300
Name the author's purpose. An author writes with mainly opinions and uses the words "the reader should" take my side.
What is persuade?
300
When the lines in a poem follow a rhythm.
What is meter?
300
The part of the drama that details the characters actions or the set designs.
What are stage directions?
300
Name the literary term. (night owl and early bird) I am a night owl and my sister is an early bird.
What is a metaphor?
400
Read the following sentence and define the word depleting. Carver taught farmers how to care for their land by fertilizing it. Carver told them to plant crops that would make the soil better instead of depleting it. Is it making better, using up and making worse, caring for, or adding to and improving?
What is using up and making worse?
400
Name the author's purpose. The author writes using emotion. The author writes to have the reader feel in a certain way.
What is entertain?
400
Read the following poem and name the rhyming pattern. Where the acorn tumbles down, Where the ash tree sheds its berry, With your fur so soft and brown, With your eye so round and merry, Scarcely moving the long grass, Fieldmouse, I can see you pass.
What are lines 1 and 3, 2 and 4, and 5 and 6.
400
The words that come after the cast members name in the drama?
What are the cast member's speaking parts?
400
Name the literary term. (the trees bowed to me) As the wind blew, the trees bowed to me, as to welcome me to the forest.
What is personification?
500
Read the following sentence and define the word groom. Campers will be responsible for the day to day care of the horse they ride. Campers will be taught to groom, feed, and properly prepare horse for riding.
What is to care for or take care of?
500
Name the (2) point of views we have learned about this year that an author can write from, and give an example of each.
What is first person using I and me? What is third person using the character's name, he, she, him, her, etc.?
500
Read these lines from the poem and describe the process mentioned in the poem. "Little thing, in what a dark den, Lie you all the winter long sleeping? Is the process...digestion, hibernation, adaptation, or metamorphosis?
What is hibernation?
500
Read the following lines from a drama. Which part of the lines would the cast member not read aloud? Hannah:(in a hateful manner)"I don't care. It's the truth! Bethany is a liar!"
What is "in a hateful manner"?
500
When you are reading an analogy, what must you first know about the pair of words, before you can solve the analogy?
What is know if it is an antonym or synonym pair?
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