Literary Terms
"In the Time of the Butterflies"
Conventions of Standard English
Informational Texts
To Kill a Mockingbird
100
A sequence of events.
What is the plot?
100
Courage vs. Cowardice, Women in politics, and the feelings of entrapment (being forced to do something against your will) are all examples of this.
What is the main idea of the novel?
100
This is when the subject and the verb are both either plural or singular.
What is subject verb agreement?
100
This is typically, but not always, the location of the main idea in an informational passage.
What is the first sentence of the passage?
100
The following are all examples of _________ from the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." Prejudice, Growing up, Injustice or finding justice.
What is theme, or main idea?
200
the main idea or message that an author is trying to present.
What is the theme?
200
A person who endures great suffering on behalf of any belief or principle.
What is a martyr?
200
This is the change that should be made to correct the following sentence: "For whatever reason, the chocolate cake were not rising as they should have been, so Fiona had to make more from scratch."
What is change cakes to cake.
200
These are details or facts that support the main idea of a paragraph.
What are supporting details.
200
This is a theme from the novel that means the state of being held down by someone or something.
What is oppression?
300
The time and place at which an event takes place.
What is the setting?
300
The following quote illustrates this characteristic of Dede: "But without a plan Dede's courage unraveled like a row of stitches not finished with a good, sturdy knot. She couldn't bear reading in the papers how the police wer rounding up people left and right"
What is cowardice, fear, or a lack of courage?
300
This is the subject in the following sentence: A bouquet of flowers were displayed in the window of the department store, which was advertising for its spring sale."
What is bouquet?
300
This is the supporting detail from the following paragraph that lets us know that the Statute of Liberty is not in its original form: "Her torch represents enlightenment, or the light that leads the way to freedom. The original torch was removed in 1984 and replaced with a redesigned version in 1986. / People used to be able climb up to the torch, but this has not been allowed since 1916."
What is "The original torch . . . "
300
The following excerpt from the novel illustrates this characteristic about Atticus Finch, "This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home."
What is his willingness to forgive.
400
The vantage point from which a story is told.
What is the point of view?
400
This is the term that means lengthy cruel or unjust treatment or control.
What is oppression?
400
This is the verb in the following sentence: "Waiting for the weather report to come on, the students crossed their fingers in anticipation there would be snow."
What is crossed?
400
This is the theme of the following excerpt: "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more,"
What is nature.
400
These characters from the text best represent the concept of a mockinbird.
Who is Arthur (Boo) Radley and Tom Robinson.
500
The methods used to present the personality of a character in a literary work.
What is characterization?
500
These words from the following quotes help us understand that Minerva feels entrapped: "Sometimes, watching the rabbits in their pens, I'd think, I'm no different from you, poor things. One time, I opened a cage to set a half grown doe free. I even gave her a slap to get her going. But she wouldn't budge! She was used to her little pen. I kept slapping her, harder each time, until she started whimpering like a scared child. I was the one hurting her, insisting she be free. Silly bunny, I thought. You're nothing like me."
Answers will vary.
500
This is the change that should be made in order to correct the subject-verb agreement problem in the following sentence: "A bouquet of flowers were displayed in the window of the department store, which was advertising for its spring sale."
What is change were to was.
500
This is the main idea of the following paragraph: Despite the hatred that most people feel toward cockroaches, they do help humans in several ways. For example, they are perfect experimental animals and are used for scientific research in the laboratory. Breeding them is easy, for they thrive under almost any conditions. In studies on nutrition and food, cockroaches are good subjects because they will eat any kind of food. They can be used to study heart disease, and cancer researchers work with roaches because they grow cancerous tumors like those that are found in humans.
What is cockroaches do help humans in several ways.
500
The use of Scout, a young child, as the narrator of the story allows the author to _________ in the novel.
What is discuss very controversial issues without bias, or overly extreme emotion.
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