Vocabulary
Comprehension
Elements
Vocabulary
Comprehension
100
dusk
What is the dim part of twilight that comes before the dark of night?
100
to hear the demands of Hunder the Giant and to think of an idea of how to destroy him
What is the purpose of the first town meeting?
100
what characters in drama say to each other
What is dialogue?
100
catapult
What is a large weapon that worked like a slingshot, used in earlier times to throw spears, arrows, or rocks
100
(shaking with terror)
What is a stage direction?
200
aghast
What is feeling great shock or horror; horrified?
200
to think up a tale (story) to amuse the Giant Hunder
What is Quillow's plan?
200
a scroll listing Hunder's demands, a piece of chocolate, a candle, a torch to light the lamps, a bench, an apple pie
What are props?
200
comical in a strange or odd way
What is droll?
200
the village square
What is the setting of The Great Quillow?
300
jerkin
What is a short, tight jacket with no sleeves, often worn by men in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
300
woddly
What was the one word the Giant hears daily in place of all other words?
300
when and where a drama takes place
What is setting?
300
a sickness or disease
What is a malady?
300
main character
Who is Quillow the Toymaker?
400
resolution
What is the act of deciding or resolving something?
400
Hunder thinks he has a malady of the mind
What does Quillow's story cause Hunder to think?
400
the characters that do most of the talking
What are main characters?
400
robbed or taken from by force
What is plundered?
400
the actual scroll of paper that listed all of Hunder the Giant's demands
What is a prop?
500
fortnight
What is two weeks?
500
sews and mends shoes and boots
What does the cobbler do for a living?
500
(whispering to others), (kindly), (yelling), (exit to the left), (seated on a bench), (sarcastically)
What are stage directions?
500
the flesh of a sheep, used for food
What is mutton?
500
calls all the people to a town meeting
What is the Town Crier?
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