Literary Analysis and
Composition 2014-2015
Thursday, October 30
Vocabulary 4.1
Literature Discussion Groups
Vocabulary 4.1
• What is our lesson objective?
• Define and use words with Latin roots.
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• When the dam broke, the town was hit with a
______ of water.
• A. travesty
• B. domain
• C. deluge
• D. ablution
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• I hate sweeping, mopping, ironing…all kinds of
__________ chores!
• A. domicile
• B. domestic
• C. domineer
• D. dormant
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• Because it hasn’t erupted in 300 years, the volcano
is said to be ___________.
• A. deluge
• B. domestic
• C. domain
• D. dormant
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• When Firefly got canceled after the first season, it
was a __________.
• A. travesty
• B. ablution
• C. deluge
• D. domain
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• Your ________ is simply where you live.
• A. domain
• B. domicile
• C. dominion
• D. domineer
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• After an evening of drinking warm milk and
reading the dictionary, Amelia was quite
_________.
• A. domestic
• B. dormant
• C. somnambulate
• D. somnolent
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• Tennessee is sometimes referred to as Old
_________.
• A. deluge
• B. dominion
• C. domain
• D. domineer
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• Questions that are not about literature are outside
of my _________.
• A. domain
• B. dominion
• C. deluge
• D. domineer
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• Rory walked into the kitchen and made himself a
sandwich in the middle of the night, but couldn’t
remember it, because he used to ____________.
• A. somnolent
• B. domicile
• C. domineer
• D. somnambulate
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• The director has a _________ interest in whether
the movie does well or not; it determines whether
he reaps a profit or suffers a loss.
• A. vested
• B. divest
• C. investiture
• D. vestment
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• The priest’s cassock is sometimes referred to
generally as a ___________.
• A. divest
• B. investiture
• C. vested
• D. vestment
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• When the Queen awarded John Barrowman with
an M.B.E., he wore a kilt during the _________.
• A. investiture
• B. vested
• C. vestment
• D. divest
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• If you cheat in the Olympics, you can expect the
Committee will ________ you of your medals.
• A. investiture
• B. vested
• C. divest
• D. vestment
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• I did not splash you in the face while we were in
the pool, it was an ___________!
• A. ablution
• B. investiture
• C. deluge
• D. travesty
Let’s Practice!
• Choose the response that completes the sentence
correctly.
• The evil prince loved to ________ over his helpless
subjects.
• A. deluge
• B. dominion
• C. domicile
• D. domineer
Literature Discussion Groups
• 1. What is the setting (time and place) of the book
you are reading? Could this story have taken place
somewhere else or at a different time? Why or why
not?
• 2. Who is/are the main character(s)? How can you
tell they’re going to be important as the story
moves on?
• 3. What problem(s) do the main characters need to
solve? Why do you want to keep reading the story?
What do you think you will find out?