Reading Comp/Vocab
What is a comparison that involves using the words "like" or "as"?
a simile
This was the name of the ship that Shackleton and his crew sailed during his famous 1914–1917 expedition.
What is the Endurance?
This elderly man is the main character of Up, who ties balloons to his house.
Who is Carl Fredricksen?
This young girl, deaf and blind since infancy, is the main subject of The Miracle Worker.
Who is Helen Keller?
This is the term for a conclusion drawn from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
What is an inference?
In the sentence “She inferred that he was unhappy,” the word “inferred” most likely means this.
What is “guessed based on evidence” or "concluded"?
Shackleton’s goal for the 1914 expedition was to be the first to accomplish this.
What is to cross the continent of Antarctica?
Carl’s flying house is headed to this South American destination.
What is Paradise Falls?
This woman is hired to teach Helen and becomes known as the “miracle worker.”
Who is Annie Sullivan?
The Endurance was trapped in this icy region of the Southern Ocean.
What is the Weddell Sea?
When a story is told from the “first-person” point of view, it uses this pronoun most often.
What is “I”?
After the Endurance became trapped and eventually crushed by pack ice, Shackleton led his men to this island in lifeboats.
What is Elephant Island?
This young Wilderness Explorer accidentally becomes Carl’s travel companion.
Who is Russell?
Annie Sullivan teaches Helen her first word by spelling it into her hand. What was the word?
What is “water”?
This is the name of Carl and Ellie’s shared dream that inspires their journey.
What is going to Paradise Falls?
This term refers to the person or character who tells the story in a novel or short story.
What is the narrator?
Shackleton and five others made a dangerous 800-mile open-boat journey to this island to get help.
What is South Georgia Island?
This colorful bird is the rare creature that Charles Muntz is trying to capture.
What is Kevin?
This illness left Helen both blind and deaf as a baby.
What is scarlet fever (or a severe illness like scarlet fever or meningitis)?
The miracle of language begins when Helen understands that this motion in her hand means "water."
What is finger-spelling (manual alphabet)?
In reading, this refers to the ability to understand something that is not stated outright but is implied through context and clues.
What is making an inference?
Shackleton’s leadership is often praised because of this remarkable fact about the fate of his crew.
What is it that all of them survived?
This type of animal makes up Charles Muntz’s trained army of helpers.
What are dogs?
The play shows a breakthrough when Helen connects this with the finger-spelled word "water."
What is the concept that words represent things?
The crew survived nearly 2 years stranded in Antarctica without this critical supply item.
What is a radio or long-range communication?