Vocab
Text Info - background, themes, characters
Literary Terms
Grammar
Vocab & Grammar
100

word for word; exactly as written or spoken

What is verbatim?

100

What famous person did Christopher admire and relate to? 

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

100

I slept like a rock last night. 

These heels are killing me.

What is hyperbole?

100

Keith and he / him were standing in line about an hour.

What is he?

100

Courage in facing difficulty

What is fortitude?

200

Having a deep-seated distaste; opposed, unwilling

What is averse?

200

This is the transformation of low-value areas to high-value

What is gentrification?

200

What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of successive words/phrase?

What is alliteration?

200

There / Their / They're are various explanations for how Stonehenge, a huge ring of stones set in place 4,000 years ago in southern England, came to be. 

What is there?

200

Robert Frost wrote in a poem, "Who's / Whose woods these are I think I know?"

What is whose?

300

a longing for something past; homesickness

What is nostalgia?

300

Race is ____________; ethnicity is ______________.

What is biological versus cultural? 

300

The setting of story includes

What is the time, place, and mood?

300

I need one of them / those paperclips. 

What is those?

300
To think about in a deep way, to ponder

What is muse?

400

able to use both hands equally well

What is ambidextrous?

400

The House on Mango Streets was written as a series of ____________.

What is vignettes? 

400

Clues the author uses to prepare readers for events that will happen later in the story

What is foreshadowing?

400

Name the prepositional phrases (2):
People with blue eyes see better in the dark.

What is "with blue eyes" and "in the dark"?

400

Which sentence is correct?

a) Neither the defendants nor the lawyer is going to talk to the press.
b) Neither the defendant nor the lawyer are going to talk to the press.

What is "A"?

500

knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding

What is omniscient?

500

This person appears only in one Holmes' story and outsmart him. 

Who is Irene Adler? 

500

The perspective that the narrator holds in relation to the events of the story - the way the story is seen through a character

What is point of view?

500

The word "good" is an ___________; while the word "well" is a _______________. 

What is adjective and adverb?

500

Something, especially a clue, that is or is intended to be misleading or distracting

What is a red herring?