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Grammar 1
Literary Terms 1
Stories
Literary Terms 2
Grammar 2
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A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
100
The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in a character's mind.
What is foreshadowing?
100
The theme in the stories Echo and Narcissus, and The Only Girl in the World for Me.
What unrequitted love?
100
The use of words whose sounds echo their sense, like "boom".
What is onomatopoeia?
100
Examples: fly, dig, jump, smile.
What are verbs?
200
A word that describes a verb or preposition.
What is an adverb?
200
An educated guess.
What is an inference?
200
The setting in The Highwayman.
What a is dark night, with a ribbon of moonlight?
200
A brief description accompanying an illustration.
What is a caption?
200
Examples: green, big, small, fussy.
What are adjectives?
300
What or whom the sentence is about.
What is the subject of a sentence?
300
The words in smaller type under the headline that add details about the article.
What is a subheading?
300
The snakes name in Rikki Tikki Tavi.
What are Nag and Nagaina?
300
Information gathered by someone who did not take part in or witness an event.
What is secondary source?
300
Examples: hugely, slowly, quickly.
What are adverbs?
400
Words that describes direction or placement.
What is a preposition?
400
At the beginning of the plot where you meet the main characters and find out what they want.
What is the basic situation?
400
The part of the story where the rats were burned alive in the story Three Skeleton Key.
What is the climax?
400
A broad statement that covers several particular situations.
What is generalization?
400
Examples: in, through, out, between.
What are prepositions?
500
What or whom is receiving the action.
What is the object of a sentence?
500
A point by point comparison between two things.
What is an analogy?
500
Tommy's theory about the loss of power in the story The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.
What is the aliens attacked?
500
The way a person looks at things.
What is perspective or point of view?
500
Examples: but, and, or.
What are conjunctions?