Unit 4 Language/Conflict/Thesaurus Review

What is a Pun?

• Words that sound the same but are spelled different 
• Play on words: a joke 
• An idiom 
• Pickle and onion mix

Why don't mummies take vacations?

• They are afraid they will relax and unwind

• They don't like to travel

• They would rather stay home and look after the children

• They don't work in the first place

What word is missing to make this a pun?

That's the _________ thing I've seen.

• stupidest

• wierdest

• funniest

• sealiest

What do you call bears with no ears?

• No ear
• No hearing
• No bear
• B

What is the "mood" of  a story?

• Emotions audience feels from a given passage.
• The time and place of the story.
• The summary of events of the story.
• The lesson the reader learns from the story.

What is the "tone" of a story?

• The feeling the passage evokes from the reader
• The author, narrator, or speaker's attitude toward a subject
• The time and place of the story
• The summary of events in the story

Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through ________.

• pictures
• height
• words
• funny faces

Nuance is:

• where and when a story takes place
• the most important complications and events that move a plot along
• shades of meaning, expression or sound
• the end of the story

I will be _____ if I can't sit by my friend on the bus

• angry

• disappointed

• devastated

• sad

I haven't eaten all day. My stomach is growling and I am ______

• hungry

• full

• starving

• dying