Scope Magazine - The Roach

Scope Magazine - The Roach

Vocabulary

• infested - insects or animals are present in large numbers, typically they cause damage or disease.

  "The house is infested with cockroaches."

• exoskeleton - a rigid external covering for the body of many types of insects, providing both support and protection.

• inevitably - as is certain to happen; unavoidably.

  "Inevitably some details are already out of date."

• dinky - small; insignificant.

  "I can't believe the dinky salaries they pay here."

• protruding - sticking out; projecting.

  "a stocky guy with a furrowed brow and a protruding bottom lip"

Multiple Choice

Whoosh is an example of...

• simile

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

Open Ended

Use the word inevitably in a sentence.

Open Ended

Use the word dinky in a sentence.

Multiple Choice

Mona grabbed an empty glass from her nightstand and perched at the foot of her bed - a cat waiting to pounce. This is an example of a...

• metaphor

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Open Ended

Use the word protruding in a sentence.

Multiple Choice

Mona's house was infested with roaches, like all the houses in the neighborhood were. This is an example of a...

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• simile

Multiple Choice

Many insects have a hard, outer "shell" called an exoskeleton.

• true

• false

Open Ended

Use the word infested in a sentence.