"Two Kinds" Questions
In "Two Kinds" the mother hopes that her daughter becomes a _______.
What is prodigy?
A child of unusually high talent
What is prodigy?
The prefix in- means this.
What is not?
Names a person, place, thing, or idea
What is a common noun?
"Two Kinds" is written in _______ point of view from the ________ perspective.
What are first-person and daughter's?
Jing-Mei does not perform well at the talent show because she is not taught well by her teacher, who is ________ and she doesn't sincerely ________ piano.
What are deaf and practice?
Fighting noisily over something unimportant
What is squabbling?
The root word -spec means this.
What is look or see?
Names a specific person, place, thing, or idea
What is proper noun?
Point of view where the narrator uses "he", "she", and "they".
What is third-person point of view?
A theme of "Two Kinds" is that being ________ is more important than being successful.
What is yourself?
To be confident, certain, or secure
What is assured?
The root word -log means this.
What is word?
Find the possessive noun in the sentence: Mike's trombone was in his room.
What is Mike's?
An individual quality that makes each character unique.
What is character trait?
When Auntie Lindo is bragging about Waverly, we learn that Auntie Lindo thinks that it is okay to ________ as long as she pretends to _________.
What are brag and complain?
Expressed sorrow or regret
What is lamented?
The root word -not means this.
What is mark?
Find the possessive pronoun in the sentence: Mike's trombone was in his room.
What is his?
How a character views events based on his or her experiences.
What is character's perspective?
What is powerful?
________ means destroyed or completely upset. _______ means disapproval or criticism.
The root word -sequ means this.
What is follow?
What are souvenir (common) and Japan (proper)?
The mother and daughter share this character trait.
What is stubbornness?
What is disappointment?
_______ means not in harmony; clashing. _______ means feeling that one has been disrespected.
What are discordant and indignity?
The root word -dict means this.
What is speak or assert?
Replace the proper possessive noun in the sentence with an appropriate possessive pronoun: Johnny went to Rachel's birthday party.
What is Johnny went to her birthday party?
The emotions or goals that drive characters to act the way they do.
What is character's motives?