MU - Vocabulary Quiz

The central idea about life and the human condition that an author wants to communicate in a story.

• Theme

• Thesis

• Tone

• Purpose

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The controlling idea of an essay which establishes the central argument or claim that an author intends to prove.

• Thesis

• Purpose

• Inference

• Overstatement

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

A conclusion drawn by combining information in a text with what is already known.

• informal

• inference

• critique

• schema

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

The writer's attitude or feeling toward the subject revealed by word choice and phrasing.

• Irony

• Genre

• Tone

• Mood

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

A real object that also stands for a big idea.

• symbol

• simile

• sarcasm

• characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The perspective from which the narrator tells the story.

• point of view

• protagonist

• conflict

• narrator

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Offering details about a character to help establish what that character is like.

• point of view

• symbolism

• characterization

• evidence

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Select all the ways an author can characterize a character through INDIRECT characterization.

• Speech

• Thoughts

• Effects

• Energy

• Actions

Her smile was like the sunrise. This is an example of what type of figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Anaphora

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

He drowned in a sea of grief. This is an example of which figurative language?

• Metaphor

• Repetition

• Synecdoche

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4