vocabulary benchmark unit 4 week 3

The _________is the trunk from which all the other elements of a story grow.

• adage

• plot

• compartment

• idiom

In striking _____________to their brothers, the girls were both intelligent and charming.

• contrast

• conflict

• theme

• sympathetic

Police warned the ______________ to keep away from the blazing building.

• conflict

• exhausting

• bystanders

• idiom

He uses the _____________ of fire to represent hatred.

• hyperbole

• climax

• theme

• metaphor

This _______________ work is enough to run everyone down.

• conflict

• hyperbole

• pitiful

• exhausting

She kept the money hidden in a secret __________________ in her briefcase.

• narration

• plot

• compartment

• irrigation

The __________ that David would become king was fulfilled .

• plot

• sympathetic

• prophesy

• optimism

A counselor should always be __________ and non-judgmental.

• prophest

• optimism

• pitiful

• sympathetic

It is sometimes impossible to avoid ___________altogether.

• metaphor

• contrast

• conflict

• contorted

The children are finding it hard to _________ to a new school.

• adapt

• adage

• contorted

• conflict