Two Kinds
Character Traits
Nouns/ Pronouns
Point of View
Prefix in-/vocabulary
100

The actress the mother wanted her daughter to study.

Who is Shirley Temple?

100

Character traits cannot be.

What are emotions?

100

Names a general person, place, or thing.

What is a common noun?

100

The point of view in which the narrator is not in the story.

What is Third Person?

100

The prefix in- is used to mean.

What is not.

200

The piece the narrator played at the talent show.

What is Pleading Child?

200

"I cannot let her change me. I won't." This character trait can be called.

What is defiant?

200

The ending of a possessive noun.

What is 's?

200

The point of view in which the narrator is a character in the story.

What is First Person?

200

To express regret is __________.

What is lamented?

300

The amount of bellows she challenged herself to count before giving up.

How many is eight bellows?

300

Character traits can be positive or negative. If someone is being pessimistic, this is a _________ character trait.

What is negative?

300

Ours, mine, theirs is an example of.

What is a possessive pronoun?

300

A character’s _________ is how he or she views events based on his or her experiences and emotions.

What is perspective?

300

The shirt was so inexpensive that Jimmy decided to buy two. Based on this sentence inexpensive means _________.

What is not expensive/cheap?

400
The mother exchanged this for piano lessons.

What is housekeeping services?

400

Sam and Nisha have known each other for so long even they work in the same company. Lately, Sam has been dropping Nisha at her place from the office before going home. Last weekend he asked her out for a candlelight dinner. The character trait Sam is showing is _______.

What is romantic/gentlemanly?

400

Texas is a great state to have a home in. The proper noun in this sentence is.

What is Texas?

400

The _________ from which a story is told.

What is perspective?

400

His handwriting was so bad, it was indecipherable. Based on this sentence indecipherable means.

What is not decipherable/cannot be read?

500

The second part of the piece our narrator found at the end.

What is Perfectly Content?

500

Jimmy was very busy last night playing soccer and taking care of his little sister. In fact, he was so busy that he forgot to do his homework. The next day, Jimmy told his teacher that he did his homework, but that his little sister threw it away. The character trait Jimmy is showing is ________.

What is dishonest?

500

The pronoun must match the noun it follows.

What is pronoun-antecedent agreement?

500

It’s a Friday afternoon in the small, sleepy town of Forest Glen. Kyle, a local teenager, bursts into Dr. Kim’s office. The point of view used is _____.

What is third person?

500

Old Chong was unable to hear the ___________ notes the narrator was playing.

What is discordant?

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