Vocabulary
Excessive Pride
What is Hubris?
A comparison not using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor
What is External conflict
Choose the correct word to complete the following sentence:
Who _____ the first settlers in the area?
a. were
b. was
What is "were"
This is where bookbags and other large personal items should be stored during class time.
To examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of something (especially information), typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation.
What does it mean to analyze?
A comparison containing "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
A combination of two antonyms in order to create a new term that makes sense.
What is Oxymoron
Identify the word acting as an adjective in the following sentence.
I think golden retrievers are better than greyhounds as family dogs.
What is "better"?
What is water?
To confirm or give support to.
What does it mean to corroborate?
The act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not human.
What is personification?
This is when a character actually reminisces about past events, retells the story.
What is a flashback
A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence?
What is a preposition?
The number of points removed from your grade for late work.
What is 10 points per day.
A statement of one's core argument, the main idea, and/or a concise summary of an essay, a research paper, etc.
What is a thesis statement?
A situation where there is a contrast between reality and expectations.
What is irony?
Making a difficult decision or struggling with emotions.
What is internal conflict.
What is wrong with the following sentence:
In the morning timmy planned to eat breakfast with his best friend cody.
"Timmy" and "Cody" should be capitalized as they are proper nouns.
This action will result in a zero for the assignment grade and an academic dishonesty referral.
What is plagiarism?
What is "point of view"?
When an author gives hints at what may happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
a heart and a peace sign are examples of this.
What is symbolism.
Choose the correct word to complete the sentence.
Danielle and I are going over to ___ house after school to study.
a. they're
b. their
c. there
What is b. their?
The novel we will be reading this year.
What is The Hobbit.