8th grade vocabulary

Question 1

Which word contains a Latin root that means "great, large"?

• A. vivid
• B. annual
• C. segregate
• D. magnify

Question 2

Which type of irony matches this description? Tension or humour created because we can see a character's mistake before they can.

• A. verbal irony
• B. situational irony
• C. dramatic irony

Question 3

Read "Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)". "The trees bow down their heads" is an example of:

• A. alliteration
• B. personification
• C. simile
• D. onomatopoeia

Question 4

What does the figurative phrase suggest? "He was a fish out of water at the party." What does this suggest?

• A. he was very hungry
• B. he felt awkward and out of place
• C. he was the star
• D. he was swimming

Question 5

Which type of irony is used here? Looking at his brother's messy room, Sam said, "Wow, you're so tidy."

• A. dramatic irony
• B. situational irony
• C. verbal irony

Question 6

What does the Greek root "gen" mean? (as in genetic, genre, genesis)

• A. birth, origin, kind
• B. new
• C. colour
• D. skin

Question 7

Which device is used? Opening the box was like opening Pandora's box.

• A. pun
• B. verbal irony
• C. allusion
• D. oxymoron

Question 8

Is the phrase in capitals used literally or figuratively? We heard AN OWL hooting in the woods.

• A. literal
• B. figurative

Question 9

These words share a Latin root that means "great, large". Type it. magnitude, magnify, magnificent

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Question 10

These words share a Greek root that means "stone". Type it. lithium, monolith, megalith

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Question 11

What does the Latin root "magn" mean? (as in magnify, magnitude, magnificent)

• A. eat, swallow
• B. group, flock
• C. year
• D. great, large

Question 12

Which word contains a Greek root that means "poison"?

• A. panorama
• B. sophisticated
• C. encrypt
• D. toxic

Question 13

Choose the word whose exact shade of meaning best fits the context. He refused to change his mind even when he was clearly wrong; he was simply ___.

• A. principled
• B. determined
• C. pig-headed
• D. resolute

Question 14

Which word contains a Latin root that means "year"?

• A. innovate
• B. centennial
• C. omniscient
• D. territory

Question 15

Which type of irony matches this description? An outcome that mocks the intentions or expectations of the people involved.

• A. verbal irony
• B. situational irony
• C. dramatic irony