It means to ask someone urgently or fervently to do something.
What is beseech?
100
The definition of plot.
What is what happens in the story- a series of related episodes, one growing out of another?
100
Hints or clues that suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
100
The definition of verb.
What is the word tells what is being done in the sentence, and/or is one of the 23 helping verbs.
100
Text logs contain these 3 parts in this order.
What are reading strategy/topic sentence, quote/evidence/support, and analysis?
200
The _____________ student cheered loudly at the school. Synonymous with the blank is energetic and noisy.
What is boisterous?
200
Five parts of plot.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution?
200
The atmosphere or emotional condition created by the piece, within the setting. It is the general sense or feeling the reader gets from the text, not the author’s or character’s state of mind.
What is mood?
200
Five "doing" verbs.
What is _____?
200
The purpose of annotations.
What is adding notes to give explanations, summaries, comments or analysis?
300
To suggest or hint something bad in an indirect and unpleasant way
What is insinuate?
300
The turning point of the story.
What is climax?
300
The definition of tone.
What is The apparent emotional state or attitude of the speaker/narrator, conveyed through the language of the piece?
300
The helping and doing verb in this sentence: Paul has played violin for ten years.
What are "has" and "played"?
300
Three of the readings we have explored in class thus far.
What are "Skinny Trees," "Black Table is Still There," and "Duffy's Jacket"?
400
The meaning of abate.
What is become less intense or widespread, particularly of something perceived as hostile or negative?
400
The story's conclusion and tying up of the story's loose ends.
What is resolution?
400
The two types of conflict.
What are external conflict and internal conflict?
400
The helping and doing verbs in this sentence: Mabel should watch Jackie Robinson play baseball after she has cleaned her room.
What are
Helping: should, has
Doing: watch, play, cleaned
400
The numbers of book chats, book summaries, and book reports we will do each quarter.
What are
Book Chat: 1
Book Summaries: 2 this quarter, 3 thereafter
Book Reports: 1 ?
500
The part of speech and definition of efficacious.
What is adjective and successful in producing a desired or intended result; effective?
500
Two components introduced in exposition.
What are setting and conflict?
500
The four types of external and internal conflicts.
What are Person vs. Person, Person vs. Nature, Person vs. Society, Person vs. Self?
500
Three vivid verbs for "eat".
What are devour, munch, consume, gobble, ingest, demolish, scarf (down), nosh, wolf (down)?
500
Three types of irony.
What are verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony?