The Giver

Unit Review Sheet

Facts and Definitions

Lesson 1: The Community

• distraught: very upset
• apprehensive: fearful that something may happen
• adherence: devotion to upholding something
• chastise: to discipline
• nondescript: no different from the others
• renewal: a recovering or restoring of strength
• exuberant: extremely joyful and enthusiastic
• anguish: extreme suffering or pain

Lesson 2: Baby Gabriel

• A utopian society is a perfect society.

Lesson 3: The Ceremony of Twelve

• The difference between a rule and a law is that laws are reinforced by a legal system established by a government.

Lesson 4: The Selection

• Italics are used to distinguish certain words from others within text.
• A euphemism is a word or phrase used to mask a rude or offensive concept.

Lesson 5: Memories

• excruciating: extremely painful
• descent: a movement down a slope
• admonition: council or advice
• assuage: to relieve something unpleasant
• obsolete: no longer used
• lethargy: lack of energy

Lesson 6: Color

• Imagery is the use of vivid language that appeals to the reader's senses and represents objects, actions, or ideas presented in the writing.

Lesson 7: Pain

• An adjective clause is a dependent clause that modifies a noun or a pronoun.
• Symbolism is a device in which a writer uses an object, person, word, phrase, sentence, etc. to stand for or represent something else.

Lesson 8: Love

• Use capitalization for abbreviations, initials and acronyms, and organizations.

Lesson 9: Rosemary

• Active voice means that the subject of the sentence is performing the action of the verb.
• Passive voice means that the thing receiving the action of the verb is the subject of the sentence.

Lesson 10: The Plan

• To change a passive-voice sentence to an active-voice sentence, find the noun in the sentence that's performing the action and make it the new subject of the sentence.

Final Project: The Final Chapter

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