Context Clues
Chattering means:
a) talking
b) answering
c) listening
a) talking
Which prefix means "again"?
a) re
b) de
c) un
a) re
The organizer for a story
What is a story map?
The people in a story are known as the:
a) Settings
b) Conflicts
c) Characters
c) Characters
What does palatial mean in this sentence?
The movie star's large and beautiful home was palatial.
a. ugly
b. tiny
c. for dogs
d. like a palace
What is d. like a palace?
Jose has a ton of friends, he's a really sociable guy!
Sociable means:
a) shy
b) outgoing
c) solitary
b) outgoing
Which affix is a suffix?
a) re
b) un
c) ing
c) ing
The part of the story that comes after the exposition, where characters are working to solve a problem or reach a goal, is called the:
a) Rising Action
b) Resolution
c) Falling Action
a) Rising action
The main problem or issue at the center of a story is called the:
a) Characters
b) Conflict
c) Correlation
b) Conflict
Slavery was abolished in the U.S. after the Civil War.
__________________________________________
A. outlawed
B. exchanged
C. running
D. common
What is a. outlawed?
The late student packed up his bag hastily and ran to his next class.
Hastily means:
a) slowly
b) loudly
c) quickly
c) quickly
Which suffix means something "happened in the past"?
a) ing
b) er
c) ed
c) ed
The most exciting part of the story, where the action is the most intense, is known as the:
a) Rising action
b) Climax
c) Exposition
b) Climax
Where a story takes place is known as the:
a) Plot
b) Setting
c) Characters
b) Setting
The class decided to exhibit the science project during Parents’ Night.
A. lose
B. eat
C. trade
D. show
What is D. Show?
The tiger's bellow could be heard in villages far away.
Bellow means:
a) belly
b) roar
c) fur
b) roar
Which prefix DOES NOT MEAN "not"?
a) un
b) dis
c) re
c) re
A group of lines in a poem, separated from other lines by blank space
What is a stanza?
The events that make up a story are known as the:
a) Characters
b) Plot
c) Setting
b) Plot
The frigid water made Elizabeth’s teeth chatter.
A. cold
B. clean
C. green
D. warm
What is A. Cold?
The thought of eating a rat is abhorrent to most people, but he was so hungry that the rat almost looked like chicken!
a) delicious
b) horrible
c) funny
b) horrible
Unhappy, unlikely, unavailable, uncomfortable, unbearable, unfortunate...
The part of a story where a character tries and tries to solve a problem.
Rising Action
Used by a poet to indicate a short pause
What is a line or line break?
Typewriters became obsolete with the development of personal computers.
A. popular
B. out-dated
C. careful
D. round
What is B. out-dated