WorksheetsConcept vocabulary
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 32mins
When she returned home from the music festival, the woman found
the (a) of her apartment strange in comparison.
When the concert hall was (a) , you could hear a pin drop from across the room.
After carefully following the recipe, Alfredo was (a) when the cake came out of the oven, hard as a rock.
The (a) destroyed the potatoes grown in the county.
Common (a) , such as colds and flus, affect the most people during the winter.
Before the return of their lost pet, the family had been (a) with worry and fear.
Write a synonym for the word stillness
Write an antonym for the word stillness
Write a synonym for the word deserted
Write an antonym for the word deserted
Write a synonym for the word puzzled
Write an antonym for the word puzzled
Write a synonym for the word blight
Write an antonym for the word blight
Write a synonym for the word maladies
Write an antonym for the word maladies
Write a synonym for the word stricken
Write an antonym for the word stricken
If a community has experienced a blight, has that community benefitted or suffered?
benefitted
suffered
True or false? A person experiencing various maladies is suffering from several disorders.
True
False
Luke was puzzled by the features on the strange map. Would it be safe to say that Luke was confused by the map?
Yes
No
f a person is considered stricken, is that person likely to be happy or distressed?
Happy
Distressed
Would you say there was stillness in the air if there was a lot of commotion around you?
Yes
No
True or false: a deserted town is brimming with life.
True
False
Is this imagery?
They ate food
Yes
No
What is imagery?
I don't know
descriptive or figurative language, found in a literary work.
When there's an image
Do we use our 5 senses in imagery: smell, taste, touch, sight, hearing?
Yes
No
Maybe
How does imagery help us understand the story?
By expressing how the author is feeling
Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see
It doesn't help
Is this Imagery: The wind blew silently
Yes
No
What type of imagery is this?
The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house
Taste
Touch
Sound
Sight
Which one of the five senses is used in this sentence?
The wolf howled painfully over the loss of his mate.
Sound
Sight
Taste
Touch
Which on of the five senses is used in this sentence?
The warm juicy burger felt like heaven on my tongue.
Touch
Taste
Sight
Sound
When we picture imagery, we picture memories and things we've experienced
True
False
Treasure Island (an excerpt) by Robert Louis Stevenson
I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow – a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards.
What does the IMAGERY used in the first paragraph tell the reader about the captain?
He has grown frail and tired with old age.
He has had a rough and adventurous life.
He is in need of first aid.
He is likely carrying treasure in his sea-chest.
"The Monkey Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
Neither spoke, but lay silently listening to the ticking of the clock. A stair creaked, and a squeaky mouse scurried noisily through the wall. The darkness was oppressive, and after lying for some time gathering up courage, he took the box of matches, and striking one, went downstairs for a candle. At the foot of the stairs the match went out, and he paused to strike another; and at the same moment a knock so quiet and stealthy as to be scarcely audible, sounded on the front door. The matches fell from his hand. He stood motionless, his breath suspended.......
Choose the phrase from the passage that appeals to your sense of hearing.
"he took the box of matches"
"squeaky mouse scurried noisily"
The matches fell from his hand
Writers create imagery through figurative language. Which is NOT a type of figurative language.
Metaphor
Theme
Simile
Personification
