midterm gr9

Question 1

Pronoun

Answer 1

A word used in place of one or more nouns.

Question 2

Adjective

Answer 2

A word used to modify a noun or pronoun.

Question 3

Verb

Answer 3

A word that expresses action or helps to make a statement.

Question 4

Adverb

Answer 4

A word used to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

Question 5

Preposition

Answer 5

A word used to show the relationship between a noun or a pronoun and another word in the sentence.

Question 6

Conjunction

Answer 6

A word that connects words or groups of words.

Question 7

Interjection

Answer 7

An exclamation that expresses emotion.

Question 8

Simple Sentence

Answer 8

Has a subject, verb, and a completed thought.

Question 9

Compound Sentence

Answer 9

Joe waited for the train, but the train was late.

Compounds are connected by a coordinating conjunction.

Question 10

Complex Sentence

Answer 10

While he waited at the train station, joe realized the train was late.

Question 11

Protagonist

Answer 11

The main character whose activities are central to the plot.

Question 12

Antagonist

Answer 12

The person who acts in opposition to the protagonist

Question 13

Setting

Answer 13

The location of events in time and place.

Question 14

Conflict

Answer 14

The basic struggle, tension, or problem within a novel or story

Question 15

types of conflict

Answer 15

Man vs Man
Man vs Nature
Man vs Society
Man vs Himself

Question 16

Rising action

Answer 16

Events leading up to the climax of the story.

Question 17

Climax

Answer 17

Event in which the hero achieves his goal.

Question 18

Falling action

Answer 18

Events or information trying up loose ends in the plot

Question 19

Conclusion

Answer 19

Final moment of a story hits a final note

Question 20

Plot

Answer 20

Arrangement of action or events in a story or novel

Question 21

First person

Answer 21

Person telling the story is a character, refers to self as “I”, knowledge is limited to what that character knows

Question 22

Third person

Answer 22

Person telling the story is not a character in the story, knows more than the audience

Question 23

Third person omniscient

Answer 23

Narrator is not a character, knows everything about everyone

Question 24

Character

Answer 24

Persons, creatures or anything else that is involved in the story

Question 25

Irony

Answer 25

The usage of words to convey the opposite meaning of what was stated

Question 26

Verbal irony

Answer 26

The opposite of what is stated literally

Question 27

Situational irony

Answer 27

The opposite result of the expected

Question 28

Dramatic irony

Answer 28

A character in a story thinks something is so but the audience knows it is not the case

Question 29

Harbouring

Answer 29

Hiding

Question 30

Secrete

Answer 30

To produce and release a liquid

Question 31

Primate

Answer 31

A member of the most developed and intelligent mammals

Question 32

Embalmers

Answer 32

People from funeral homes who use chemicals to keep a human body from decaying

Question 33

Prosecuting

Answer 33

Officially accusing someone in a court of law

Question 34

Ingrate

Answer 34

Someone ho is not grateful

Question 35

Putrid

Answer 35

Rotten

Question 36

Berserk

Answer 36

Out of control and violent

Question 37

Escapist

Answer 37

Someone who escapes unpleasant life by thinking, reading, etc of better things

Question 38

Louse

Answer 38

Slang for an awful person

Question 39

Exert

Answer 39

To use an ability or skill

Question 40

Incongruous

Answer 40

Different from surroundings or from what is usually happening

Question 41

Subliminal

Answer 41

To be able to influence somebody without them realizing it or be influenced by someone without realizing it

Question 42

Prevarications

Answer 42

To avoid telling the truth

Question 43

Noun

Answer 43

A word used to name a person, place, thing, or idea.