Name _______________________________ Date ______________ Period ________
Harris and Me Vocabulary #1 Practice
Directions: Read each sentence and put the correct word in from the Harris and Me
Vocabulary List #1.
simile
mood
style
riveted
metaphor
hyperbole
narrator
plot
theme
vagaries
subsequently
personification
characterization
inflation
1. When Mary get frozen yogurt, Mary likes to pour
hot fudge on her sundae.
character
setting
liberal
_______
conflict
point of view
devised
amounts of
2. After school, Jake did his homework, and
bed.
, he went to
3. James used the screw driver to make sure the screw was
place, so that the table he built would not fall apart.
4. The economy is filled with
always going up and down.
into
because the stock market is
5. By attaching the balloon to the helium take tank, the clown began the process of
________________________for the balloon.
6. The sneaky ninja
a plan to steal the diamonds.
7. “Matt ran like a cheetah” is an example of a
___
8. “Derek has a million hours of homework” is an example of a
9. “The sad tree dropped its leave during the fall” is an example of
.
_______
___________
10. “Sam was a cat, sneaking around the house” is an example of ______
11. The
Movement.
.
.
of Mary Poppins is London during the Women’s Right
12. Mark Twain’s _______
is to write using dialogue, so the characters
sound like they have southern accents.
13. Harry Potter is the main
.
in the Harry Potter series.
14. The author of Divergent uses
as having a tattoo that is symbolic of each of the Factions.
when she describes Four
15. “Beauty can be found within” is an example of
Ugly Duckling.
____
in the book, The
16. There is a lot of action in the
________
of Maximum Ride, and the
reader did not see the exciting twist coming in the climax.
17. When Sally reads a sad book, it changes her
18. In the book, Legend, June experiences
falls in love with her brother’s killer.
19. Fever 1793 is told from the
20. Maddie is the
.
_______
of Maddie.
of the story, Fever 1793.
when she