Lesson 11 Vocab ws 36 - Words From Literature

Choose the vocabulary word for the sentence.

People only six inches tall live on the island of Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift.

• jabberwocky

• lilliputian

• quixotic

• narcissus

Choose the vocabulary word for the sentence.

A knight called Don Quixote is the hero of a book by Cervantes.

• robot

• quixotic

• puckish

• Herculean

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In the play, The Rivals by Richard Sheridan, Mrs. Malaprop has trouble getting things straight.

• utopian

• scrooge

• malapropism

• jabberwocky

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Karel Capek made up a word for machines that work for people in his play called R.U.R.

• lilliputian

• quixotic

• narcissus

• robot

Choose the vocabulary word for the sentence.

In Roman mythology, Hercules does twelve impossible labors.

• puckish

• Herculean

• utopian

• scrooge

Choose the vocabulary word for the sentence.

Scrooge is a selfish character in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

• malapropism

• scrooge

• jabberwocky

• lilliputian

Match the following literary source with each word.

• jabberwocky

• In a Greek myth, a youth named Narcissus falls in love with his own image and finally turns into a flower.

• puckish

• Lewis Carroll created an imaginary animal called a Jabberwock in Through the Looking-Glass.

• utopian

• An impish character named Puck appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare.

• narcissus

• In 1551, Sir Thomas More wrote about Utopia, an island with a perfect social and political system.