Visions of Vocab
What vocabulary word is a synonym for vengeance?
What is retribution?
Read the following passage. What kind of conflict is shown here?
Ronny has won second place in the science fair for the last two years, and Newton Robinson has taken first. Ronny hated how Newton gloated and held those victories high over Ronny's head. This year, Ronny will stop at nothing to beat Newton. He has even enlisted the help of a Nobel Prize nominated scientist who was banished from the scientific community for his rogue experiments. Can Ronny and his mad scientist partner win against the undefeated Newton at this year's science fair?
What is person vs. person conflict?
Choose the pronoun that agrees with the antecedent for the following sentence:
The police officer asked both of the witnesses whether _____ had seen the killer's face.
A. he/her
B. it
C. they
D. himself
What is C. they?
Is the following sentence featuring collective nouns written correctly?
A swarm of bees are attacking the school of students.
What is no? (the verb should be singular)
Compared to the other contestants on the reality show, Monica wasn’t able to show her bravado and eat the bowl of squirming insects.
What a correct synonym for bravado?
A. boldness B. fear C. punishment D. difficulty
What is A. boldness?
What type of conflict is present in the following story?
Janie is on a whitewater-rafting trip along a choppy river when their guide suddenly has a heart attack. Now she and the other passengers must learn to work together to survive the treacherous rapids. As if things weren't bad enough, some of the passengers have spotted a bear following the confused rafters along the shore. Will Janie make it home safely?
What is person vs. nature?
What missing objective personal pronoun should be added to this sentence? Mary and Molly were missing their notebooks. They knew Jack took them, so they ran over to him and said, "Hey! Those notebooks are ____!"
A. mine C. hers
B. theirs D. ours
What is D. ours?
Name 3 elements of plot structure.
What are... exposition, setting, situation, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
What word best completes the blank space in the following sentence:
Bob realized the task of writing and submitting a five page essay in two hours before it was due in class was ____________.
A. rudimentary C. impervious
B. incorporeal D. insurmountable
What is D. insurmountable?
Which of the following words best characterizes Valarie?
It was Halloween and Valarie was dressed as Princess Rosemary from her favorite TV show, The Princess Club. As Valarie was collecting candy, she noticed another little girl wearing a Princess Rosemary costume. Valarie began rolling around on the ground and screaming about how she wants to be the only Princess Rosemary. Valarie's tantrum continued long after the other Princess Rosemary vanished from sight.
A. calm C. enchanting
B. wicked D. depressed
What is B. wicked?
What is incorrect about the use of the correlative conjunction in the following sentence?
Ms. Emily and Ms. Boulinaki not only love to eat tacos, but also they love to dance before they eat tacos!
What is incorrect parallel structure?
What is the best thematic statement for the following story?
K liked Lucy more than any other girl in the school, but he had an odd way of showing it. When she walked ahead of him in line, he kicked at her shoe. When she passed him on the school yard, he called her "Lucy the Loser." He even wrote a mean word on her homework during the bus ride to school. But what puzzled Lucy the most was receiving an invitation to K's birthday party. Figuring that he was just planning a mean trick on her, Lucy decided not to go. As K eagerly awaited Lucy's arrival, Lucy talked on the phone to Jacob. When K finally realized that Lucy was not coming to his party, he was devastated.
A. All is fair in love and war.
B. It's important to be truthful.
C. Ew, boys are gross.
D. K doesn't deserve a girlfriend.
What is B. It's important to be truthful?
What word best completes the blank space in the following sentence:
By praying to the study gods, Zee is sure that she will _________ a perfect grade.
A. bravado C. negate
B. manifest D. vengeance
What is B. manifest?
What word best characterizes Eric?
Eric's car broke down in the woods and his phone wasn't getting a signal. He used his car antenna as a spear and caught fresh salmon. He started a fire with sparks from his car battery, and he ate the cooked salmon while waiting for help.
A. weird C. resourceful
B. frustrated D. blue
What is C. resourceful?
What grammatical structure is missing from the following paragraph?
It was Halloween and Valarie was dressed as Princess Rosemary from her favorite TV show, The Princess Club. As Valarie was collecting candy, toys and chocolate, she noticed another little girl wearing a Princess Rosemary costume. Valarie began rolling around on the ground and screaming about how she wants to be the only Princess Rosemary. Valarie's tantrum continued long after the other Princess Rosemary vanished from sight.
What is an Oxford comma?
What figurative language (that we have studied) is NOT seen in the following sentence?
The leaves waved in the wind like little children saying goodbye to their parents on the first day of school.
What is a metaphor? (there's a simile and personification!)
Read each sentence below. Each of the vocabulary words are used correctly EXCEPT:
A. The feeling of freedom is generally incorporeal, though crossing a border can make it feel very real.
B. His disguise was conspicuously odd, as you don't usually see police officers in a school.
C. Tommy partially negated his low test score by completing test corrections.
D. Ms. Emily is clearly impervious to pain because she will cry if she drops something heavy on her foot.
What is D. Ms. Emily is clearly impervious to pain because she will cry if she drops something heavy on her foot.
What does each letter in STEAL stand for? After telling us, you must act/speak all of the parts of STEAL using yourself as the character. The characteristic is wicked.
What is Speech, Thoughts, Effect on others, Actions and Looks?
Did the student complete STEAL through the characteristic of wicked?
What specific part of speech is missing from the following sentence?
Ms. Emily loves chickens so much, she can't own any here because she doesn't have a yard.
What is the coordinating conjunction BUT?
Which of the following is an abstract noun?
A. oxygen
B. morning
C. China
D. blue
What is morning? (it is connected to time, which is abstract)