Literary Vocabulary Review

What test taking strategy is good to use when you are trying to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar word or phrase?

• eenie meenie miney mo

• fill in the blank

• close your eyes and guess

• pick your favorite letter of a,b,c,d

If a passage is written in third person point of view, we know the character's

• thoughts

• actions

• feelings

• all answer choices are correct

If you are asked to make a prediction or infer,

• use the passage to help you with evidence

• go with your personal emotions

• eenie meenie miney mo

• take your best guess

When asked to identify the theme in a given passage, you are looking for

• the main idea.

• the life lesson.

• a description of the setting.

• a personal connection.

At lunch, Jeremy couldn't help but (a)   ​ about the cafeteria food, expressing his dissatisfaction with the lack of variety and flavor in the meals.

• gripe

• deranged

• plausible

• stern

Still entwined, the puppets ​ (a)   violently against each other.

• threshed

• countenanced

• grafted

• suppliant

• bowed

The family faced their ordeal with ​ (a)   and courage.

• dignity

• petulance

• stalwart

• collusion

• countenance

"Then leaf ​ (a)   to leaf.”

• grudge

• conviction

• bewilderment

• contemptuous

• incredulous

• sophisticated

• aloofness

• Premonition

• gallant

• subsides

An allusion is s a form of figurative language. It is used to

• compare two unlike things.

• give human qualities to an object.

• reference another work like mythology or the Bible.

• as a sound device.

If you are looking to determine how an author develops a viewpoint in a passage, you are looking for

• how they expand on an idea.

• how they describe a certain setting.

• how the character looks.

• how they love to write.