MCAS Missing Letters

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
e g l i s
Language spoken in the USA and the UK
2.
l n g u g
A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
3.
r t s
Paintings and drawings (plural)
4.
p e t y
Literature in metrical form
5.
n o i c t i n
Prose writing that is not fictional
6.
d a a
A ___ work intended for performance by actors on a stage
7.
s o r t t o e s
A prose narrative ___ than a novel (plural)
8.
m e a h r
A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally
9.
o p e r p o s e
10.
o m p i t o n
The spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to
11.
p a g r a p s
12.
t p c
13.
c n c l i o n
The temporal end
14.
p o r t i n g
15.
d t i l s
An isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole (plural)
16.
i g l i h e r s
17.
l t i p l e c i c
18.
s i m i
A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds
19.
h p e r b l
Extravagant exaggeration
20.
o l k l r
The unwritten lore of a culture
21.
c o m r e h e o n
22.
e l a i n
To make plain and comprehensible
23.
x c e r p
24.
o m p a r
Qualities that are ___