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Literary Analysis
Reading Skill
Vocabulary
Grammar
Vocab in Context
100
The two types of characterization.
What is direct and indirect characterization?
100
The structure of cause and effect.
What is something happens as a result of something else happening and so on and so forth?
100
The meaning of the word root -ject-.
What is "to throw"?
100
Another word for the predicate in a sentence.
What is the verb in the sentence?
100
A synonym for the word informal.
What is casual, comfortable, etc...?
200
Words that would demonstrate direct characterization within a story. (give examples, teacher will judge)
What is messy, arrogant, shy, funny, etc....
200
Two things needed in order to format a text.
What is text and design elements?
200
The meaning of the word root -bene-.
What is "well"?
200
The predicate is one half of the sentence whereas the ______ is the other half.
What is the subject?
200
A synonym for the word wiff. (not as in miss)
What is smell, breath, etc...?
300
The details of a story that help determine indirect characterization.
What is a character's words, actions, thoughts, feelings, how they treat other characters, what other characters think about them, etc...?
300
Text features that help readers locate important information. (Think of a textbook)
What are headings?
300
The meaning of the suffix -ious.
What is "possessing, or full of a certain quality"?
300
The difference between active and passive voice.
What is in active voice the action is done BY the subject of the sentence and in passive voice the action is done TO the subject of the sentence.
300
A synonym for the word lathered.
What is covered in, coated, etc...?
400
The difference between symbolism and allegory.
What is symbolism shows up randomly within a story where as everything in an allegory is a symbol for something else?
400
A type of document that usually has headings and subheadings.
What is a newspaper article, magazine article, textbook chapter, etc....?
400
The meaning of the word benefactor.
What is someone who donates/supplies something?
400
The more formal of active and passive voice.
What is passive voice?
400
A synonym for the word readjustment.
What is rearrangement, moving, tightening, etc...?
500
A reason an author might have for writing an allegory.
What is to criticize something, to incite change, to show the wrongs of a certain aspect of society or the world, etc...?
500
******DAILY DOUBLE******
The part of town where Jay Gatsby lived in "The Great Gatsby".
500
The meaning of the word benevolent.
What is good thoughts or good will? Goodness.
500
Identify the subject and the predicate in the following sentence: Jenny and Jacob skipped along the path that lead to grandma's house.
What is subject: Jenny and Jacob, predicate: skipped along the path that lead to grandma's house?
500
The legislative branch of the government is made up of the senate and the ________.
What is congress?