Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension #1
Reading Comprehension #2
Poetry
Random Questions
100

The type of story is known as a the ___________.

Genre

100

A question that doesn't really require an answer is known as ________________.

Rhetorical Question
100

When you use the words around an unknown word to help you determine the meaning.

Context Clues

100

A scene from the past in a story is called a  ___________________

flashback

100

Name the three verb tenses.

Past, Present, Future

200
What Greek root means "feeling or suffering"

-path

200

Words with very strong positive or negative meanings

Charged Language
200

Flashbacks can be ________, _________, or a ________. 

 a dream, a memory, or a timeshift
200

a deliberate re-use of the same words or phrases is called

Repetition
200

What is the prepositional phrase in the following sentence:

The cat jumped through the window.

through the window.

300

Another word for connotations

nuances

300

What type of of logical fallacy is this?

Girls are not good at sports.

Overgeneralization
300

_______________ point of view is when the narrator knows the thoughts of all the characters in the story.

Third Person Omniscient

300

Name two types of lyric poems.

Sonnets and Villanelles

300

What part of the plot introduces the characters and setting?

Exposition
400

To do something without thinking

Impetuous

400

What type of logical fallacy is this?


If you lie, then you will steal.

Single Cause

400

I am exhausted after a day's work.  It is tiring to do my job.

This is an example of what rhetorical deivce?

Restatement

400

A stanza with four lines is called a __________

quatrain

400

What part of the plot does the conflict get the most intense?

Climax

500

What characters say and do; their spoken words or physical actions

External Response

500

___________ point of view is when the narrator is part of the story.

First Person

500

_____________ point of view is when the narrator knows the thoughts of one only one character in the story.

Third Person Limited
500

What do you call the paragraphs in a poem?

Stanzas

500

What characters feel and think; their unspoken thoughts and emotions

Internal Response