Week 10 Tier 2 Words Quiz

Match the following words to their definitions.

• Succumb

• To give in, as to overwhelming force, influence, or pressure.

• Subsequent

• The way something is done; in literature, it's the way in which an author writes and/or tells a story.

• Stanza

• Following in time or order.

• Suffice

• The building blocks of formal poetry, like paragraphs in a story or verses in a song.

• Style

• Be enough or adequate, either in quality or quantity.

For Patrick Henry, living a peaceful life under British rule would not (a)   .

Answer explanation

Suffice: Be enough or adequate, either in quality or quantity.

As I was walking to school, I told myself, "I will not ​ (a)   to the temptations offered by Lucero Bakery."

• succumb
• suffice
• subsequent

Answer explanation

Succumb: To give in, as to overwhelming force, influence, or pressure.

Because I completed my Frayer Models, I will do well on the (a)   quiz. ;)

Answer explanation

Subsequent: Following in time or order.

How many stanzas does this poem have?

(a)  

The definition of author's style is...

• a writer's unique way of writing or telling a story using word choice, sentence structure, figurative language, and tone.

• a writer's attitude toward his or her subject such as serious, humorous, sarcastic, or respectful.

• giving human qualities to an animal, object, phenomenon, idea, or anything that is not specifically human.

• a form of language that is spoken in a particular region by people who live there.