vocabulary game amy dent, tis april 2006 amy dent, tis april 2006 let’s play!!
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Vocabulary GameVocabulary Game
Amy Dent, TIS April 2006
Amy Dent, TIS April 2006
Let’s Play!!
![Page 2: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
3
4
5
6
2
1
3
4
5
6
2
1
5
4
5
66
1
2
3
2
3
4
1
![Page 3: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Return to
Game Board
Return to
Game Board
![Page 4: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Try again
![Page 5: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
The repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together
Example: The sleek snake slithered along the path.
alliteration
fable
irony
same sound
100-1
![Page 6: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
biography
A nonfiction (true) story that tells facts about a person who really lived; it tells the life of a real person
fantasy
myth
personification
100-2
![Page 7: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
A person or an animal in a story, play, or other literary work
Click on the definition for the word.
Character
A pot with a crooked handle
Conversation between two or more people
A scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event.
100-3
![Page 8: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
mood
The overall emotion created by a work of literature
plot
realistic fiction
idiom
100-4
![Page 9: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
the repetition of sounds
the attitude a writer takes
beat of a drum
the time and place of a story
100-5
Click on the definition for the word.
Rhyme
![Page 10: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
fantasy
a story that tells about things that could not really happen except in one’s imagination
nonfiction
main idea
free verse
100-6
![Page 11: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
autobiography
dialect
waiter
personification
200-1
when a person writes a story, or history of his own life
![Page 12: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
A short story that teaches a lesson, usually about animalswho talk and act as people do
scene that breaks the normal time order of the plot to show a past event
A story with no known author, originally passed on from one generation to another by word of mouth
The condition where you whine and complain about reading a book over 200 pages and then you end up liking it.
200-2
Click on the definition for the word.
Fable
![Page 13: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
nonfiction
stories or other selections that are based on truth and that tells facts about real people, things, or events.
folk tale
imagery
made up stuff
200-3
![Page 14: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
setting
The time and place of a story
clock
metaphor
Tall tale
200-4
![Page 15: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
The most important idea expressed in a piece of writing
A nonfiction selection which gives the reader information about a subject
The use of clues or hints to suggest events that will occur later in the plot
The overall emotion created be a work of literature
200-5
Click on the definition for the word.
Main Idea
![Page 16: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
figurative language
A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true
(Mom erupted like a volcano when saw the mess in the kitchen)
jokes
dialect
alliteration
200-6
![Page 17: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
fiction
stories or other selections about people. Things, or events that are produced by the author’s imagination
lies
irony
metaphor
400-1
![Page 18: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Conversation between two or more characters
The most important or exciting event in the plot of a story
Language that appeals to the senses- sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell
The series of related events or happenings that make up a story
400-2
Click on the definition for the word.
Dialogue
![Page 19: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
idiom
a group of words that has a meaning that is quite different from the meaning the words usually have
(example: It is raining cats and dogs.)
refrain
legend
humor
400-3
![Page 20: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another thing in the comparison
(ex. Her hands are ice.)
fable
onomatopoeia
foreshadowing
400-4
![Page 21: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Poetry that is “free’ of a regular meter and rhyme scheme
A sale at Wal-mart with free drinks at the door
The pattern of rhyming sounds at the end of lines in poem
The vantage point from which the story is told
400-5
Click on the definition for the word.
Free verse
![Page 22: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
realistic fiction
A believable story because it tells about things that could happen and about people who seem real but are not.
tall tale
mood
conflict
400-6
![Page 23: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
onomatopoeia
The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning
(ex. Boom! Zap!)
nonfiction
alliteration
dialect
800-1
![Page 24: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
A struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces
A way of speaking characteristic of a particular region or of a particular group of people.
A repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a poem or song
An exaggerated story; the story is told in such an exaggerated way that it is not believable
800-2
Click on the definition for the word.
Conflict
![Page 25: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
rhythum
A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of other sound patterns
song
tone
theme
800-3
![Page 26: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
A comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like or as
When a person writes a story, or history of his own life
The repetition of sounds within lines
Supposedly happened long ago; involve fantastic characters, make believe, and center on some problem
800-4
Click on the definition for the word.
Simile
![Page 27: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
personification
Figurative language in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
(ex. The leaves danced along the sidewalk.)
biography
myth
folk tale
800-5
![Page 28: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
irony
A contrast between what is expected and what really happens
(ex. Elephant runs away from a mouse)
idiom
igloo
iron
800-6
![Page 29: Vocabulary Game Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Amy Dent, TIS April 2006 Let’s Play!!](https://reader036.vdocuments.mx/reader036/viewer/2022081514/5697bf841a28abf838c86c50/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
•Each team consist of 3 – 4 players
•Each team designates a person to be the “buzzer”. That person will stand when the team is ready to answer. No actual “buzzing” please.
•The host will read the question and answers in their entirety before participants may respond.
•Team members may discuss possible answers. Only the “buzzer” may respond.
The “buzzer” will respond only when recognized. No blurting out answers