Tuck Everlasting

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: Getting Ready

• tranquil: peaceful and quiet
• meager: not enough, inadequate
• whit: a small bit
• indomitable: not easily overcome or defeated
• loll: to lean back in a relaxed or lazy way
• melancholy: depressed or thoughtful
• contemplation: process of thinking something through
• disheartened: discouraged
• A verb shows action or links the subject to words that describe it (work, sing, be).
• A noun is person, place, thing, or idea. (John, London, pen, freedom)
• An adjective describes a noun or pronoun (good, red, interesting).
• An article is a special type of adjective used to introduce (a, an, the).
• An adverb describes a verb, adjective, or adverb; it tells when, where, or how (quickly, silently, very, really).
• A pronoun replaces a noun (I, you, he, them, some).
• A preposition begins a prepositional phrase (to, at, after, on).
• A conjunction joins words, phrases, or clauses (and, but, when).
• An interjection is a short exclamation (oh!, ouch!, so, well).

Lesson 2: The Wood

• Prepositions are special linking or connecting words that always begin a prepositional phrase — the preposition starts the phrase, and a noun or pronoun ends the phrase (example: under the table).
• A prologue is an introduction that comes at the beginning of a book and usually provides information to help the reader understand the story.

Lesson 3: Winnie

• Adverbs describe verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs; they typically describe how, when, or where.
• Personification is a technique that a writer uses to give human-like characteristics to something that is not human.

Lesson 4: The Tucks

• Groundwater is water that is found underground in the spaces and cracks between soil, sand, and gravel.
• Verbs are words that describe the action a noun is taking or link the noun to words that describe it.

Lesson 5: At Home with the Tucks

• Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns and are used to describe, specify which or whose, or tell how many.
• Juxtapose means to put unlike things side by side, often for the purpose of comparison.

Lesson 6: The Man in the Yellow Suit

• Personal pronouns are words like I, she, and them that refer to a specific person or thing.
• Demonstrative pronouns are words like this, that, and those that refer to something specific.
• Interrogative pronouns are words like who, what, and which that are used in questions.
• Relative pronouns are words like who and which that introduce a clause.
• Indefinite pronouns are words like everything, anyone, and nobody that don't refer to a specific person or thing.
• Intensive pronouns have the same form as reflexive pronouns but are used to emphasize that the subject did something instead of someone else doing it.
• Reflexive pronouns are words like myself, herself, and ourselves that are used to show that the subject of the sentence did something to or for himself or herself. These pronouns end in -self or -selves.

Lesson 7: Fishing

• apprehension: a suspicion or fear of future trouble
• constable: an officer of the law
• parlor: a room to receive and entertain visitors
• revulsion: a strong feeling of dislike
• prostrate: helpless or depressed
• gentility: refined; well-bred and having good taste
• Similes and metaphors are comparisons that show how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in an important way.

Lesson 8: The Gallows

• Coordinating conjunctions (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) link two words, phrases, or independent clauses.
• Subordinating conjunctions (such as if, unless, or although) begin dependent clauses.

Lesson 9: The Plan

• What makes something happen is called a cause.
• An effect is what happens as a result of the cause.
• A cause and effect paragraph explains the reasons for or the consequences of something.

Lesson 10: The Water and the Toad

• An epilogue is like an extra chapter that comes at the end of a book that often brings closure to the story or reveals the fate(s) of the character(s).

Final Project: A Debate

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