"Summer Rain" Vocabulary Quiz

Based on the following sentence, what does the word dreary mean?

"All of winter with its dreary gray days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach."

• cold

• resentful

• dull

• engaging

According to how it is used in the following sentence, what does the word scant mean?

"We suffered through months of school and miserable weather for those scant ten weeks of freedom..."

• realistic

• many

• balmy

• short

According to how it is used in the following sentence, what could you choose to replace balmy that would make it easy for the reader to understand its meaning?

"...miserable weather for those scant ten weeks of freedom and balmy weather."

• sticky and humid

• warm and pleasant

• enlightened

• grim

What type of literary device is used in the following sentence?

"On those rainy summer days, I had nothing to do and could only sit inside, starting out at the rain like a Dickensian orphan."

• imagery

• allusion

• simile

• metaphor

"It was the best of times. It was the worst of times" is an example of _____________________ because words of opposite are side by side.

• personification

• imagery

• juxtaposition

• onomatopoeia

If I operated a few businesses under different entities, what would that mean?

• The businesses were going bankrupt.

• The businesses are each separate and independent businesses.

• The businesses have different owners.

• The businesses are all encompassed as one business.

The teacher spoke with a monotonous tone of voice throughout the entire class period.

Based on how it is used in the sentence, what does monotonous mean?

• boring

• unchanging

• dull

• loud

As a child the summer offered the narrator a reprieve from daily schedules and school, but it did not do the same for his father who worked at home.

Based on the context of the sentence, determine the difference between the narrator and his/her father.

• The narrator looked forward to daily schedules since his father worked from home and could spend time with him/her.

• The narrator wished that the rain would take a break because his/her father spent a lot of time with him/her at home.

• The narrator was always ready to go back to school since his father would not let him/her do anything fun in the summer.

• The narrator enjoyed summer because it was a break from school even though his father did not get a break from work.

Typically, good public speakers have excellent __________________ skills since they are trying to persuade the audience in one way or another.

• formal

• metaphorical

• rhetorical

• realistic

If a poem is referred to as ambiguous, it must be what?

• Clear and concise to the reader

• Able to be interpreted in more than one way

• Able to have metaphors and similes

• Unclear and utterly confusing