Vocabulary
Summer School
Literary Terms
Fun
English
100

a very smart person

genius

100

True or false: A biography is a person's history and story

True

100

a problem in a story

conflict

100

Which big cat is the largest animal?

Tiger

100

What is a narrative?


A story

200

a story people tell about someone that may not be true

rumor

200

True or false: A biography is written by the person it is about

False
200

description of a character

characterization

200

Which is the largest planet in the solar system?

Jupiter

200

What type of figurative language is this:

"That suitcase weighed a thousand pounds"


Simile

Metaphor

Hyperbole

Personification

300

poisonous, dangerous, or deadly

toxic

300

What disease did Frida Kahlo get as a child?

Polio

300

time and place

setting

300

In which city did the Olympic games originate?

Athens, Greece

300

A noun is:

A person, place or thing

400

nervous or afraid someone is out to get you

paranoid

400

What happened to change Frida's life when she was 18?

A bus accident / Car crash

400

when a story goes back in time to show the reader what happened in the past

flashback

400

Which color is an emerald?

Green

400

What is the plural of fish?

Fish

500

to throw away; put in the trash

dispose of

500

Who was Frida Kahlo's husband?

Diego Rivera

500

when the writer gives us a hint or clue about what might happen later in the story

foreshadowing

500

Which company is the largest chocolate manufacturer in the United States?

Hershey's

500

The underlined word in the following sentence is a: 

I tried on seven shirts yesterday and bought only two.

Adjective