Rev It Up:Vocabulary
The vocabulary word that means a person who is stingy and doesn't want to give anything away.
What is miserly?
What is -ly?
A central message, moral, or lesson in a story.
What is theme?
The genre of Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed by Ray Bradbury.
What is science fiction?
The year that The Great Depression began.
What is 1929?
The vocabulary word that means someone who is wise and gives good advice.
What is sagacious?
What is a possessive noun?
When a story is told from this point of view, the narrator is not a character in the story.
What is third-person point of view?
The famous Asian American author who wrote, "Two Kinds" from The Joy Luck Club.
Who is Amy Tan?
What are workhouses and prisons?
The vocabulary word that means empty, dry, or unable to grow things.
What is barren?
What is a compound sentence?
A comparison in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is personification?
The name of the planet where Meg in A Wrinkle in Time finds her father.
What is Camazotz?
The pilot who landed a plane in the Hudson River.
Who is "Sully" Sullenberger?
What is benevolent?
The purpose of an adjective in a sentence.
What is modify or describe a noun or pronoun?
The attitude of the speaker or narrator in a text.
What is tone?
The amount of money that Scrooge pays his clerk, Bob Cratchit, in A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley.
What is 15 shillings?
During the 1930s and 40s, this was a popular form of entertainment.
What are radio plays?
The vocabulary word that means you suffer and become weak.
What is languish?
The degree of adjective or adverb used when three or more things are being compared.
What is the superlative degree?
Instructions for actors on how to move and speak, or it describes what the stage should look and sound like.
What are stage directions?
The three brothers in The Outsiders.
Who are Ponyboy, Soda Pop, and Darry?
The curly-haired child movie star from the 30s that Jing-Mei's mother in "Two Kinds" wants her to look like.
Who is Shirley Temple?