Vocabulary
City of Ember
Nouns
Parts of Speech
100

The person in a story who does something good; usually the main character.

What is a protagonist?

100

Lina and Doon's light source after leaving Ember.

What is a candle?

100

A word that replaces a common or proper noun.

What is a pronoun?

100

A person, place, thing, or idea.

What is a noun?

200

The person in a story who does something bad; usually the villain.

What is an antagonist?

200

The vehicle that Lina and Doon used to escape from Ember.

What is a boat?

200
A general, non-specific person, place, or thing.

What is a common noun?

200

An action.

What is a verb?

300

The ability to do or say what you want, when you want.

What is free will?

300

The way in which Lina and Doon notified the people of Ember that there was a way out, AFTER they escaped.

What is throwing a note down through a crevasse in the earth?

300

A specific person, place, or thing - usually written with a capital letter at the beginning of the word(s).

What is a proper noun?

300

Describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

400

An event involving destruction on a catastrophic scale.

What is an apocalypse?

400

The type of animal that Lina and Doon saw in the grass after escaping Ember.

What is a fox?

(Bonus points: what does it say?)

400

A noun that is tangible - you can see/touch/hear/taste/smell it.

What is a concrete noun?

400

Describes a verb.

What is an adverb?

500

Compliance with rules or laws; usually this word implies that everyone acts and lives the same way.

What is conformity?

500

The place from which Lina watched The Singing.

What is the clock tower?

500

A noun that you can't touch - usually refers to an idea or a concept.

What is an abstract noun?

500
Tells us about the relationship between two parts of a sentence or phrase (location, direction, time, etc).

What is a preposition?