1. *misc. : abbreviate  :: equipt : ______
2. *protagonist : hero :: antagonist : _______
3. *responsible : reliable :: qualified : ______
4. *food : ______ :: music : ________
5. *write out : abbreviate :: minimize : ______
6. **hero : scapegoat :: agreement : _______
7. **quirk : idiosyncrasy :: motionless : ________

1. "If you can picture a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times...you'll have Johnny."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
2. "We were careful with our cigarettes--if that old church ever caught fire there'd be no stopping it."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
3. "I could fall in love with Dallas Winston."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
4. "...everything looked unreal, like a scene out of a JD movie..."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
5. "Quiet, soft-spoken little Johnny...had taken a human life."   a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
6. "Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then and wouldn't be so quick to judge..."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
7. "It was almost four months ago..."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
8. "They were all tough as nails and looked it."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
9. "...half the hoods I know are pretty decent guys...and a lot of Socs are just cold-blooded mean--but people usually go by looks."   a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme

Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest.

1. Sometimes Les Goodman had ____, and would get up and look at the stars in the middle of the night.   a) dissent  b) revelation  c) insomnia  d) fluster  e) scapegoat
2. The replays of the auto wreck _____ TV watchers all over the country.  a) assented  b) transfixed  c) insomnia  d) flustered  e) scapegoated
3. "You're standing here all set to crucify--all set to find a _____--all desperate to point some kind of a finger at a neighbor."  a) fluster  b) revelation  c) metamorphosis  d) idiosyncrasy  e) scapegoat
4. "They'll probably think we're crazy or something. A little power failure and right away we get all ____ (ed) and everything."  a) assent  b) revelation  c) metamorphosis  d) fluster  e) scapegoat
5. "In this brief fraction of a moment, they take the first step toward performing a _______ that changes people from a group into a mob."  a) persistent  b) revelation  c) metamorphosis  d) idiosyncrasy  e) transfixed
6. Almost everybody has one or more _____(s) that people who don't know them would consider "weird."  a) dissent  b) assent  c) metamorphosis  d) idiosyncrasy  e) scapegoat
7. The little boy is very ____; when he wants something, he keeps trying and trying. a) persistent  b) revelation  c) flustered  d) idiosyncrasy  e) transfixed
8. The last book of the Bible is called ______(s), and it's where the writer reveals visions of the end of the world. a) scapegoat  b) revelation  c) fluster  d) idiosyncrasy  e) transfix
9. Congress passed the bill unanimously, without _______.   a) persistent  b) revelation  c) flustered  d) assent  e) dissent
10. Though third period was very _________ in their begging, Mr. Coward... a) dissent  b) transfixed  c) flustered  d) persistent  e)  transfixed
11. ...refused to _________ to their requests.   a) flustered b) revelation  c) dissent  d) assent  e) fluster
12. In professional sports, the coach is often the ____ for a team's bad performance, even if it isn't always his fault.  a) metamorphosis  b) revelation  c) flustered  d) idiosyncrasy  e) scapegoat

MONSTERS!

Wednesday, 11/3/10 -- EIGHTH GRADE
Warm Up (8). Copy. * = spelling word.  ** = vocabulary word.

1. *electricity : wires :: water : __________
2. *solemn, column, autumn, __________
3. *brain : neurology :: mind : __________
4. *superfluous : flood :: insufficient : __________
5. *fingers : manipulated :: teeth : ___________
6. *eggs : omelet :: flour : __________

Literary Terms. Exemption Round II. Use your yaller sheet.

1. "I feel like I've been assaulted."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
2. "I'm going to get transferred out of both."  "How you going to do that?"  "I'm working on it." Sure...Malloy Magic, right?" "You'll see."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
3. "One thing I've learned is this; you really have to stick up for your rights."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
4. "The trick is getting past the teacher. It's like a race."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
5. "But it wasn't I who sent him home...Yet I've been blamed for his suspension.    a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
6. "I don't know the words."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
7. NBTT doesn't have one of these.  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
8. "...it's bread and circuses..."  a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme
9. "Just tell her the (whole) truth."   a) foreshadowing  b) flashback  c) protagonist  d) irony  e) metaphor  f) simile  g) theme

Go over vocabulary homework.
Vocabulary Pretest

1. Years of drug use had left his thinking _________(ed)...   a) shrewd  b) stimulus  c) lucid  d) impair  e) subliminal
2. ...and he thought that aliens were trying to send him ______ messages through the TV shows he watched.  a) deteriorate  b) stimulus  c) semantic  d) impair  e) subliminal
3. Rip Van Winkle went off into the mountains to escape his wife, a _____ who made life miserable. a) shrew  b) stimulus  c) specter  d) impair  e) feeble
4. Even people with Alzheimer's have their _____ moments when they remember everything.  a) shrew  b) lucid  c) specter  d) impair  e) feeble
5. The company thought the pay raise would be a ______ for production in the factory.  a) feeble  b) stimulus  c) lucid  d) specter  e) subliminal
6. The _______ light from the dying fire was not enough to read by.  a) deteriorate  b) stimulus  c) lucid  d) specter  e) feeble
7. As you grow up, there is a certain progression of __________ development in your learning of language.  a) shrewd  b) stimulus  c) semantic  d) impair  e) subliminal
8. He made some _________ investments and got rich very young.  a) deteriorate  b) stimulus  c) semantic  d) shrewd  e) subliminal
9. She was so terrified that every shadow became a ________.   a) feeble  b) stimulus  c) lucid  d) specter  e) subliminal
10. The city offered a __________ plan to building owners... a) shrewd  b) semantic  c) stimulus  d) impair  e) subliminal
11. ...to help them fix up their buildings and revive the _________(ing) downtown area.  a) deteriorate  b) stimulus  c) semantic  d) impair  e) impair
12. With my grade at 59%, the ________ of failure hung over me.  a) deteriorate  b) stimulus  c) lucid  d) specter  e) feeble

Charlie.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Types of Sentences. Use Monday's exercise to help you.
Unscramble into a complete sentence. ID the resulting sentence as complex, compound, or simple.

1. a) and dive  b) participants hold  c) hundreds of feet  d) their breath  e) straight down in the ocean ||  simple? compound? complex?
2. a) if he or she  b) the return to the surface  c) comes up too fast  d) can kill a diver  ||  simple? compound? complex?
3. a) began a snow sculpture  b) Greg shoveled the snow  c) and his brother   ||  simple? compound? complex?
4. a) and spotted the solution  b) looked at the problem  c) Wang and his brother    ||  simple? compound? complex?

a) and then  b) with static  c) the radio crackled  d) went out   ||  simple? compound? complex?