Word Wall/ Roots
Shurley
Point of View
Figurative Language
Literature
100
a slight knowledge or suspicion; a hint.
What is inkling?
100
Pattern 2
What is (SN V-t DO)?
100
Third person pronouns include
What are he, him, his, himself, she, her, hers, herself, it, its, itself, they, them, their, theirs, and themselves?
100
- Calm and chaos
- Civilization and wilderness
- Dark and light
- Despair and hope
- Fact and fiction
- Foolish and serious
- Good and bad
What is juxtaposition?
juxtaposition- two contrasting concepts side by side
100
The name of the Island in the Most Dangerous Game
What is Shiptrap Island?
200
Large in quantity; abundant.
What is copious?
200
This part of speech functions to express a state of being.
What is a linking verb?
200
A point of view which tells a story without describing any character's thoughts, opinions, or feelings
What is third person objective point of view?
200
An example of a hyperbole
What is (example of a hyperbole)?
hyperbole- exaggeration
"I was driving a thousand miles per hour!"
200
Four characters from The Outsiders are
What are Ponyboy, Darrell, Two-Bit Mathews, Sodapop, Curly...?
300
An example of the word claustrophobia in a sentence
What is (example sentence)?
Claustrophobia- fear of closed spaces
300
The pattern of this sentence.
That large book on the shelf is a dictionary.
What is pattern 4, (SN, LV, PrN)?
300
The point of view of the excerpt from The Ransom of Red Chief
"Gentlemen: I received your letter about the ransom you ask for the return of my son. I think you are a little high in your demands. I hereby make you a counter-proposal, which I believe you will accept. You bring Johnny home and pay me two hundred and fifty dollars, and I agree to take him off your hands. You had better come at night because the neighbors believe he is lost. And, I could not be responsible for what they would do to anybody they saw bringing him back. Very respectfully, Ebenezer Dorset."
What is first person point of view?
300
The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant.
What is metonymy?
Example: The crown for all royalty.
300
The Red Death
What is a disease; you die in half an hour, you ooze blood, get dizzy, and have pains?
400
An example of a word with the root morior
What is having to do with death? What is mortuary, morgue, morbid?
400
The pattern of this sentence.
Nancy painted the room green.
What is pattern 7, (SN, V-t, DO, OCA)?
400
The point of view which allows us to only know the thoughts and feelings of one character.
What is third person limited point of view?
400
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
What is alliteration?
alliteration- the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
400
Example of internal conflict in The Most Dangerous Game.
What is Rainsford's recognition that there is a fine line between the hunter and the hunted?
500
An example of a word with the root occido
What is having to do with murder? What is homicide, insecticide, genocide?
500
Did the detective consider her the leader of the new gang?
What is Pattern 6?
500
From what point of view is this narrated:
How to properly clean your CD: First you buy a CD buffer from your neighborhood Gamestop store. If you want to clean your CD for free instead, get a Q-tip or soft cloth.
Second Person POV
500
the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of clauses that follow one after the other
For example: "I have a dream" repeated within Dr. King's speech
anaphora
500
In "The Gift of the Maggi," what literary technique is used when neither character can use their Christmas present because of what they sacrificed to buy their gifts?
Irony