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WorksheetsThe Giver Study Guide
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
The author's attitude toward their writing
Tone
Mood
Connotation
Diction
What is the emotion a word gives off?
Tone
Denotation
Connotation
Mood
Candid, Truthful, Spiteful, Hateful, Cautionary are all ???
Nouns
Tone Words
Similes
Hyperboles
What is a reference to something famous outside of a text in a text? For example: biblical, pop-culture, literary
connotation
allusion
alliteration
plot
What figurative language is being used here? Then, the first wave of pain. He gasped. It was as if a hatchet lay lodged in his leg, slicing through each nerve with a hot blade."
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
personification
What figurative language is being used? ''Then the men were gone, speeding toward the horizon in a vehicle that spit pebbles from its whirling tires.
personification
simile
metaphor
alliteration
What type of figurative language is being used? "The plan seemed startingly simple."
alliteration
personification
metaphor
simile
What type of figurative language is being used? Jonas said that he was starving while still in the community.
simile
metaphor
hyperbole
alliteration
What figurative language is being used? "Psssheeewwww!" A child's voice, coming from behind a nearby bush, made the sound. "Pow! ... The children were playing war that Jonas now knew wasn't a game to play.
personification
alliteration
hyperbole
onomatopoeia
What does objective mean?
a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
an intentionally false statement.
What should be included in a summary?
main ideas and minor details
main ideas with a plethora of description
main ideas of who, what, when, where, and why with no minor details
minor details and description
The message of the story that we can learn universally
mood
tone
theme
symbolism
“He could feel that there was risk involved, though he wasn’t sure how. ‘Well,’ he said finally, grasping for an explanation, ‘they had fire right there in that room. There was a fire burning in the fireplace. And there were candles on a table. I can certainly see why those things were outlawed.
“‘Still,’ he said slowly, almost to himself, ‘I did like the light they made. And the warmth’” (126).
Infer what the fire in the candles and fireplace be a symbol of.
destruction
fire
love
hate
Which TWO of the following quotes best support the theme that individuality is better than conformity?
“The Giver shrugged. ‘Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness...We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.’”
“‘If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?’ He looked down at himself, at the colorless fabric of his clothing. ‘But it’s all the same, always.’”
“‘He might make wrong choices.’ … ‘We don’t dare to let people make choices of their own...What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And they chose wrong?’”
“‘We really have to protect people from wrong choices.’”
“‘Life here is so orderly, so predictable--so painless.’”
Speak in a dull monotonous way
disposition
palpable
invariably
droning
a person's inherent qualities of mind and character.
disposition
droning
palpable
invariably
able to be touched or felt.
disposition
invariably
palpable
taut
bright
languid
luminous
taut
perils
slow and relaxed
taut
languid
briskly
sarcastic
a hole or would made with a sharp point
perils
gestures
puncturing
vigilant
