Stories
Literary Devices
Vocabulary
Characters
Miscellaneous
100
This story is the published diary of a girl who narrates her years in hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, Holland.
What is Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
100
Device in which you use clues from the story, as well as your own knowledge, to make a guess about things the author doesn't say directly.
What is Making Inferences?
100
A person, particularly someone young, with exceptional talent and ability
What is a prodigy?
100
This character from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is an impatient, lecturing, nosy, controlling dentist.
Who is Mr. Dussel?
100
Unscramble the vocabulary word, and fill in the blank. utcidaya I couldn't believe the _____________ that boy had to talk back to his mother that way.
What is audacity?
200
This story includes two bumbling criminals whose plan for a kidnapping goes awry.
What is The Ransom of Red Chief?
200
How is suspense used in The Tell Tale Heart?
What is repeated words, exclamations, sounds, alliteration, narrator's feelings, words associated with fear or dread, etc...?
200
Replace the word "stealthily" in the following sentence: I stealthily stole the Jelly Bellys from my sister's purse when she wasn't looking.
What is secretly, quietly, carefully, slyly, etc...?
200
Use 2 words to describe Bill Driscoll.
What is pudgy, unintelligent, scared, pathetic, etc...?
200
Discuss one major external conflict, and one major internal conflict from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Explain the type of conflict that it is (character vs...).
Answers will vary.
300
In this play, written originally for radio broadcast, a man is tormented by the reappearances of a "roadside wanderer."
What is The Hitchhiker?
300
What element of plot is left out of The Elevator, and why do you think it is?
What is resolution? To add excitement or intrigue, to allow the reader to make predictions?
300
True or False: A roller coaster ride is most likely a monotonous experience.
What is false?
300
This character from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is mild-mannered, sentimental, critical of Anne, and at one point, threatens to kick Mr. and Mrs. Van Daan out of the annex for being unfair with food portions.
Who is Edith Frank?
300
List the 3 types of external conflict. (Character vs...)
What is character, nature, society?
400
In this short story, whose resolution is unknown, a boy can't seem to escape the presence of a...plump?...woman on the "mechanical hoist" in his building complex.
What is The Elevator?
400
Provide 2 examples of irony from The Ransom of Red Chief.
What is kidnappers want to return child, kidnappers threaten to return child, child begs not to be returned, child enjoys being kidnapped, father demands payment in exchange for his son, kidnappers pay to release child back with his father, etc...?
400
What is a synonym for the word sinister?
What is evil, ominous, threatening, terrible, etc...?
400
Use 4 words to describe Johnny Dorsett.
What is talkative, rude, reckless, wild, disrespectful, playful, etc...?
400
What does CAPE stand for in reference to foreshadowing?
What is Concrete, Abstract, Prominent, Evocative?
500
In one story, a man brutally murders a helpless elderly gentleman who can't help it that his eye is a little cloudy, later suddenly overcome with paranoia and guilt about his crime. In the other, a sassy athlete from Harlem prepares for the big May Day race, and beating her snooty competitor, Gretchen. After winning, her focus shifts to training her mentally handicapped brother instead.
What are The Tell Tale Heart and Raymond's Run?
500
List 2 examples of foreshadowing used in The Hitchhiker; explain what type each one is (CAPE).
Answers will vary.
500
Use the word hypocritical in a sentence.
Answers may vary.
500
Use 5 words to characterize Anne Frank.
What is creative, sensitive, outspoken, emotional, a dreamer, optimistic, rowdy, playful, etc...?
500
List the 5 elements of plot in order.
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution?
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