Vocabulary
Literary Concepts
Stories
Literary Concepts 2
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The synonym of this word is rub.
What is chafe?
100
The beautiful shark glided gracefully through the water. This is an example of what?
What is author's bias?
100
In this story, Victor tries to impress a girl by pretending to speak French.
What is "Seventh Grade"?
100
An argument for or against something will contain these three pieces.
What is claim, reasons, support?
100
The synonym for this word is agreeable.
What is amenable?
200
What word belongs in the following sentence: The ______________ voice blasted out of the speaker into the classroom.
What is disembodied?
200
Read the following and decide what literary concept this is an example of: Hawaii has become my home, Jesenia thought as she floated easily over the coral reef, the soft pulse of the waves carrying her gently back and forth.
What is mood?
200
Sixth-grader Willie gives a homeless man money and cake and asks him about a cure for unhappiness. What story is this?
What is What Do Fish Have to Do With Anything?
200
A dove means peace, the fish with no eyes stood for blindness in people. The dove and fish are examples of what?
What is symbols?
200
This word means the importance of an event or action that makes it worthy of media reporting.
What is newsworthiness?
300
Wake up is the synonym of this word.
What is revive?
300
A message about human life or human nature the writer wants the reader to understand.
What is theme?
300
In these selections, we learned about a disease that terrorized people throughout the Middle Ages.
What is "Like Black Smoke" and "A World Turned Upside Down".
300
To entertain, persuade, inform, or express an opinion. These are examples of what concept?
What is author's purpose?
300
This story was about a woman painting on a wall, outraging the narrator and his cousin.
What is "The War of The Wall"?
400
Someone who doesn't follow the crowd is a what?
What is a dissenter?
400
Tamara pushed open the rusty gate. The garden was as overgrown as a jungle. “There could be very strange creatures hiding in this place,” she thought. What is this an example of?
What is foreshadowing?
400
In this story, a thief falls in love and changes his ways.
What is "A Retrieved Reformation"?
400
This is one example of a type of evidence found in informational text: a statement that many people assume to be true, but which is not necessarily so.
What is a commonplace assertion?
400
In this selection, the author was convinced that going to a certain planet was a waste of time.
What is "Why We Shouldn't Go to Mars"?
500
People do this to animals because they are afraid of them. Animals such as sharks and rats are most often the victims.
What is demonize?
500
This is an example of a rhetorical fallacy and involves name-calling to discredit the writer.
What is ad hominem?
500
In this story, a Vietnam Veteran helps a young boy cope with his injuries and learn about himself.
What is "Zebra"?
500
In stories using this literary concept, the person telling the story is an active participant, uses I and me, and tells his/her thoughts and feelings.
What is first person point-of-view?
500
What is the following an example of: When I was little, the best playground in the whole world was the farthest away. I would spend half the fifteen minute recess running as fast as my little legs would take me just to play on it for five minutes. Then I'd have to run twice as fast so that I could make it back to my class before the teacher shut and locked the door. Life is very much like this. You work all your life desperately trying to achieve something and after you get it, it's taken away twice as fast. Nothing lasts forever. Power, fame, fortune, or life, it's all taken away faster than it's achieved. It's all for that five minute play on the playground.
What is an analogy?
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