Vocab in Context
What is it called when you have two different words with the same meaning?
What is a synonym?
What is the connotation of the word infamous?
What is negative?
What is it called when you compare two things using like or as
What is a simile?
What is setting?
What is it called when you show that you are listening to a speaker by watching the speaker and staying focused the entire time?
What is active listening?
What context clue can you use to determine the meaning of pescatarian?
I am a pescatarian because I do not eat meat, minus fish.
What is definition or example clue?
What punctuation fits in the blank:
I had to get up early____ however, I did get to eat some donuts.
What is a semicolon?
What is it called when you give human-like qualities to a non-human character? (The pencil grew legs and walked away).
What is personification?
When you make assumptions about a character based on their speech, thoughts, effect on others, actions, and looks, what is it called?
What is indirect characterization?
What is the highest point in the story (and plot diagram)?
What is the climax?
Define innocuous.
Nina makes a big fuss about every little thing her children do, whether it’s harmful or innocuous.
What is a innocent/ not harmful?
What is it called when you make sure all of your verbs are in the same tense and that you're using similar grammar structures throughout your writing?
What is parallelism?
What literary device is present:
After sitting in the sun all day, the inside of my car felt like 300 degrees.
What is hyperbole?
What is it called when a character is struggling with their own emotions/feelings? (Be specific!)
What is internal conflict?
Identify the prefix and/or suffix:
constructed
What is con- and -ed?
Define incongruous.
My old dented car looks incongruous among my neighbors’ fancy new cars.
What is out of place in one's surrounding?
What punctuation fits in the blank?
She read several parenting books __ for she didn't feel prepared to be a new mother.
What is a comma?
What is a reference to a famous person, place, thing, or piece of literature?
What is an allusion?
What is it called when an author leaves clues for events that will happen later on in the story?
What is foreshadowing?
What are the two main rules when creating a theme?
What are complete sentences and universal?
Define optimist.
The children could tell, from Phil’s statement about everything and everybody having a good side, that he was an optimist.
What is a person always looking on the bright side?
What is is called when your sentence is not organized properly and it causes confusion.
(The waiter brought a steak to the customer that was medium rare).
What is misplaced modifier?
What literary device is present?
Bang! Pop! Bang!
What is onomatopoeia?
What is the difference between tone and mood?
Tone is the author's attitude towards a subject and mood is the way an audience feels due to a text.
When you have to make an educated guess, what are you making?
What is an inference?