Lit Terms
Vocab Review
Grammar
Literature
Punctuation
100

A universal truth or insight revealed in literature 

What is theme? 

100

Clumsy, hard to handle; slow-moving; burdensome

What is cumbersome? 

100

Identify the Subject: 

The small, round ball bounced down the hallway. 

What is ball?

100

The story in which everyone stones one person from the town

What is "The Lottery"?

100

What is this sentence missing? 

We went to the game and came home late

What is a period?

200

The words a writer uses and the enunciation of words.

What is diction?

200

lasting for a long time, persistent; (n) a plant that lives for many years 


What is perennial? 

200

Identify the verb:

The running water flowed through the crack in the pipe. 

What is flowed? 

200

The object that the narrator in the "Tale Tell Heart" obsessed over and "made" kill the old man

What is the old man's eye?

200

Identify the missing punctuation: 

After the game we decided to stop by Dairy Queen before going home. 

What is a comma? 

300

The perspective from which a story is told

What is point of view? 

300

Not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable

What is erratic? 

300

Identify the Predicate Adjective: 

The fallen tree was rotten on the inside. 

What is rotten? 

300

This story was ironic because the main character died when she learned that her husband wasn't dead

What is "The Story of an Hour"? 

300

Identify the missing punctuation: 

The girls team won the championship last night. 

What is an apostrophe? 

400

The writer's attitude toward the topic

What is tone? 

400

Firm, showing no signs of fear, not drawing back

What is unflinching? 

400

Identify the Participle: 

My sister stepped onto the broken chair and fell; I filmed it all. 

What is broken? 

400

This story is told from a 1st person point of view though we don't know the name of the narrator

What is "The Tale Tell Heart"? 

400

Identify the missing punctuation: 

That's not fair! she yelled at me. 

What are quotation marks? 

500

The use of logical facts and arguments to prove a point

What is logos? 

500

to pardon or overlook

What is condone? 

500

Identify the gerund: 

Basically, swimming is a really important sport in my family. 

What is swimming? 

500

This story used foreshadowing at the beginning to give the reader a hint about what would happen later

What is "The Lottery" OR "The Story of an Hour"? 

500

Identify the missing punctuation: 

For the holiday, we will travel, eat, and visit family I am looking forward to it!

What is a semicolon?