Literary Terms We've Used
Definitions
"The Rattler"
Part of Speech
Things We Will be Learning
100
How an author feels or thinks about a subject.
What is tone?
100
Lighted by the light, left form sunset.
What is twilit?
100
In the desert about sunset.
What is the setting?
100
Determine how the vocabulary word is being used by using your context clues. After saving her entire family from a house fire, the HEROIC little girl was awarded the key to the city.
What is an adjective?
100
WOW !
What is an interjection?
200
Giving human characteristics to non human objects/things
What is personification?
200
Moving in a wave like motion.
What is undulant?
200
What did the main character feel he was obliged to do when he saw the rattlesnake?
What is to kill it?
200
Determine how the vocabulary word is being used by using your context clues. Some students DREAD coming into school on Test Day. Dun dun dun
What is a verb?
200
The book about a little girl living in Bosina.
What is Zalata's Diary?
300
The Dripping Springs Tigers are kittens off the football field.
What is a metaphor? How do you know?
300
Open widely
What is gape?
300
"Taking a life is not a sport in which..."
Who is the rancher?
300
Determine how the vocabulary word is being used by using your context clues. \Mrs. Mac, Mrs. Burnside, Ms. Cogdell and Mrs. Hundl are all from the same GENERATION.
What is a noun?
300
A word that modifies another verb or adjective?
What is an adverb?
400
...
What is an ellipsis?
400
Foreshadowing evil events.
What is ominous?
400
At times one must do what they do not want to do.
What is the purpose?
400
Determine how the vocabulary word is being used by using your context clues. Our PREVIOUS Jeopardy game was never as exciting as this one.
What is an adjective?
400
I went to the store to by me a piece of candy, boy was it good. STORE is...
What is the object of the preposition?
500
The way an author puts words/sentences together.
What is syntax?
500
Undulant, serpentine
What is sinuous?
500
Written as a self- reflection.
What is audience?
500
I need to CAUTION all of you before tomorrow's test to please read all directions before starting your test. Determine how the vocabulary word is being used by using your context clues.
What is a verb?
500
An object that represents something other than what it really is.
What is a symbol?