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Concept vocabulary

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When she returned home from the music festival, the woman found

the (a)   of her apartment strange in comparison.

2.

When the concert hall was (a)   , you could hear a pin drop from across the room.

3.

After carefully following the recipe, Alfredo was (a)   when the cake came out of the oven, hard as a rock.

4.

The (a)   destroyed the potatoes grown in the county.

5.

Common (a)   , such as colds and flus, affect the most people during the winter.

6.

Before the return of their lost pet, the family had been (a)   with worry and fear.

7.

Write a synonym for the word stillness

4 lines
8.

Write an antonym for the word stillness

4 lines
9.

Write a synonym for the word deserted

4 lines
10.

Write an antonym for the word deserted

4 lines
11.

Write a synonym for the word puzzled

4 lines
12.

Write an antonym for the word puzzled

4 lines
13.

Write a synonym for the word blight

4 lines
14.

Write an antonym for the word blight

4 lines
15.

Write a synonym for the word maladies

4 lines
16.

Write an antonym for the word maladies

4 lines
17.

Write a synonym for the word stricken

4 lines
18.

Write an antonym for the word stricken

4 lines
19.

If a community has experienced a blight, has that community benefitted or suffered?

a)

benefitted

b)

suffered

20.

True or false? A person experiencing various maladies is suffering from several disorders.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Luke was puzzled by the features on the strange map. Would it be safe to say that Luke was confused by the map?

a)

Yes

b)

No

22.

f a person is considered stricken, is that person likely to be happy or distressed?

a)

Happy

b)

Distressed

23.

Would you say there was stillness in the air if there was a lot of commotion around you?

a)

Yes

b)

No

24.

True or false: a deserted town is brimming with life.

a)

True

b)

False

25.

Is this imagery?

They ate food

a)

Yes

b)

No

26.

What is imagery?

a)

I don't know

b)

descriptive or figurative language, found in a literary work.

c)

When there's an image

27.

Do we use our 5 senses in imagery: smell, taste, touch, sight, hearing?

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

Maybe

28.

How does imagery help us understand the story?

a)

By expressing how the author is feeling

b)

Imagery helps us to see, touch, taste, smell, and feel what the characters feel and see

c)

It doesn't help

29.

Is this Imagery: The wind blew silently

a)

Yes

b)

No

30.

What type of imagery is this?

The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house

a)

Taste

b)

Touch

c)

Sound

d)

Sight

31.

Which one of the five senses is used in this sentence?

The wolf howled painfully over the loss of his mate.

a)

Sound

b)

Sight

c)

Taste

d)

Touch

32.

Which on of the five senses is used in this sentence?

The warm juicy burger felt like heaven on my tongue.

a)

Touch

b)

Taste

c)

Sight

d)

Sound

33.

When we picture imagery, we picture memories and things we've experienced

a)

True

b)

False

34.

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?

a)

He has grown frail and tired with old age.

b)

He has had a rough and adventurous life.

c)

He is in need of first aid.

d)

He is likely carrying treasure in his sea-chest.

35.

"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.

a)

"he took the box of matches"

b)

"squeaky mouse scurried noisily"

c)

The matches fell from his hand

36.

Writers create imagery through figurative language.  Which is NOT a type of figurative language.

a)

Metaphor

b)

Theme

c)

Simile

d)

Personification