Vocabulary
Comprehension
Literary Elements
Synonyms
LIterary and Reading Skills
100
Which vocabulary word from this story means a harsh, unjust ruler?
What is a tyrant
100
What was Booth's motivation for assassinating Seward in the story, "Team of Rival."
Seward like Marc Anthony would make a martyr out of his fallen leader.
100
An author's attitude toward a subject or character is what?
What is tone
100
At first going to the movies seemed trivial to Park's but later he sees the significance. What is a synonym for trivial? difficult, easy, or unimportant
What is unimportant
100
This is a component of style and it is how the writer puts words toghether and how long and complex an author's sentences are.
What is sentence structure
200
What vocabulary word means slipping back?
What is relapse.
200
What is Gordon Park's weapon in the story "A Choice of Weapons."
What is a camera
200
What is an imaginative comparision between seemingly unlike things?
What is figurative Language
200
Oxygen tanks are crucial for mountain climbers. What is a synonym for crucial? useful, essential, or optional
What is essential
200
The statement "Love Conquers All" is an example of Theme or Symbolism
What is theme
300
What vocabulary word means thin, weak or fragile?
What is tenuous
300
In "Typhoid Fever" most of the aults attempt to make Frankie behave by making him feel guilty or threatening to punish him.
What is make him feel guilty
300
What are three common urposes for writing?
What is inform, persuade, and entertain
300
Frankie induced Seamus to find words to the rest of the poem. What is synonym for induce? required, forced, or persuaded
What is persuaded
300
This is a part of style and it is the atmosphere the author creates.
What is mood
400
What vocabulary word means crying out or demanding.
What is clamoring
400
In the story, "Into Thin Air," after the clouds are sighted, the guides tell everyone to start going back down the mountain because the weather is threatening. True or False
True
400
What is a major component of style; the way a writer uses words?
What is diction
400
Rolf works with tenacity to free Azucena. What is synonym for tenacity? Persistence, anger, hesitation
What is persistence
400
What does it mean when you give human like characteristics to unhuman things?
What is personification
500
What vocabulary word means having to much prinde in one's looks?
What is vain
500
In "102 Minutes," you know that Sereika and the other men are tired after the rescue because they took several breaks during the rescue attempt or they could barely walk after the rescue had been completed.
What is they could barely walk after the rescue was completed.
500
Name 5 forms of nonfiction.
What is biography, autobigraphy, memoir, personal essay, and journalist.
500
The clouds looked benign to the mountain climbers. So they continued to climb. What is a synonym for benign? distant, harmless, or beautiful
What is harmless
500
All the stories that we read in collection 5 were classified as fiction or nonfiction.
What is nonfiction