Show:
TKAM
Clauses and Phrases
Grammar
Miscellaneous
Vocabulary
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What do Scout and Jem call their father?
Atticus
100
What is a clause?
a grammatical unit with a subject and predicate (verb)
100
Is the following group of words a phrase, independent clause, or dependent clause? “Tomorrow never knows”
Independent
100
In the following sentence, “I was as frozen as a popsicle,” as a popsicle is an example of what?
A simile
100
Define or give a synonym for cordiality
friendliness
200
In TKAM, whose house caught on fire?
Miss Maudie's
200
What is a verb?
A word expressing action or being
200
In the following clause, what is the predicate? “He sat”
Sat
200
Other than the cold, what personal characteristic did the man in “To Build a Fire” have that led to his death?
Pride
200
Define or give a synonym for assuage
To lessen someone's anger, fear, or anxiety
300
What is Scout's real full name?
Jean Louise Finch
300
What is a subject?
The “doer” or agent of a sentence--the noun or pronoun doing something or being some way
300
In the following clause, what is the subject? “She borrowed the pencil”
She
300
How did Kurt Cobain die?
Suicide by shotgun
300
Define or give a synonym for predilection
a preference or tendency to do something a certain way
400
In TKAM, when do the kids start to understand that Atticus actually can do things?
When he shoots the rabid dog
400
What is a predicate?
The main verb of the sentence expressing action or being: what the subject is doing or being
400
What is parallel structure?
using the same pattern of words in clauses or phrases in a sentence to help with clarity and to emphasize equal importance of ideas.
400
In “To Build a Fire,” the man breaks through the ice and gets his leg wet. He builds a fire that starts to catch, but the fire goes out. Why?
Snow on a tree limb above the fire falls on the fire.
400
define or give a synonym for nebulous
Hard to understand, without form, unclear, diffuse, confusing
500
Scout gets into a fight with her cousin at Finch’s Landing. What’s his first name?
Francis
500
Is the following group of words a phrase, independent clause, or dependent clause? “Because she fixes desks.”
dependent clause
500
Is this sentence parallel or not? After the show, Rihanna was tired, so she took a break, she was walking her dog, and a hamburger was eaten by her.
Not
500
What is a paradox?
a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
500
define or give a synonym for absquatulate
skeedaddle, high-tail it, book it, move on, get away, leave, escape, abscond