Gothic Vocabulary

While Radu struggled, Willem stabbed him hard in the back with a red hot sword. When writing is really descriptive and gives the reader a picture, the technique is called...?

• pictography

• alliteration

• imagery

• rhetorical question

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

'She is as grumpy as a grisly bear' is a ...........

• metaphor

• imagery

• personification

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Mrs Bessuges often ....... ........................ ..................... when the children are messing around and she doesn't really mean them to answer her.

• asks rhetorical questions

• screams out of the window

• laughs out loud

• buries her head in a book

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

While we were reading 'My Swordhand is Singing' we learned about what typical elements make up a gothic novel. These are call the ............................... .............................

• gothic trees

• gothic conventions

• scary bits

• business conventions

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Which answer uses alliteration?

Are you hungry? Let's find a cafe for ________, __________ and __________.

• egg, chips and cola

• coffee, cakes and tea

• coffee, cakes and cola

• fish, chips and coffee

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

"When Tatiana walked through the store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her."

What is being personified?

• Tatiana

• The store

• High heels

• her

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

What is Empathy?

• ability to feel sadness

• Ability to understand how someone is feeling

• Ability to see in someone else's head

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The storm clouds that were gathering over the castle looked ______________.

• alliterate

• ominous

• empathetic

• imminent

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Inexplicable, strange, mystical are all synonyms of which word?

• mysterious

• superstitious

• ominous

• meagre

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Definite, sure, clear are all antonyms of which word?

• meagre

• ominous

• gothic

• vague

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4