Vocabulary
The word peddler in the following sentence comes from a root meaning?
"The peddler walked from door to door selling vacuum cleaners."
What is foot?
A group of lines placed together to create a poem is called a(n)...?
What is stanza?
The opposition of forces, essential to the plot is called__________?
What is conflict?
Identify the text structure that this definition belongs to:
"Used when the writer is explaining why or how something happens, exists or works."
What is cause and effect?
If something is sweet, which sense am I describing?
What is taste?
What does the word meandered mean in the following sentence?
I meandered through the mall taking my time looking at all the clothes in the windows.
a. hurried b. ran c. wondered d. jogged
What is wondered?
A phrase or line repeated throughout the poem?
What is repetition?
Annie and Moby walked through the dark forest. The air was very cold. They were scared of the monster.
What is the setting?
What is the dark forest?
What does the author use to explain a photograph or diagram?
What is caption?
Seated on his throne, King Midas wore a golden crown. He had golden rings on each finger and held a golden scepter. His vest was embroidered with golden thread and even his shoes had golden ornaments. He had a golden box filled with gold coins. He named his daughter Marigold.
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
What is King Midas loved gold?
Which word in the following sentence comes from a root meaning believe?
"The local school’s accreditation increased their student enrollment."
What is accreditation?
Fear knocked on the door is an example of:
What is personification?
What is the main difference between THEME and MAIN IDEA.
What is theme is a universal lesson and main idea is what a story is about?
When something is done in time order, what text structure is that?
What is chronological?
Mary smelled smoke. She looked outside and saw a plume of smoke billowing in the sky. A few minutes later, she heard sirens in her neighborhood. You can infer that.....
What is a house in the neighborhood is on fire?
If you have trouble understanding a word in a passage or sentence of a story, you may want to read previous words or the end of the sentence to determine what the word means. What is this strategy known as?
What is context clues?
What is language that appeals to the senses in poetry? It creates pictures in the head.
What is imagery?
Racism, segregation, religious beliefs, environmental issues, being wrongly accused of something, are examples of what type of conflict?
What is man vs. society?
What are the titles used in a text to tell the reader what that part is about?
What is headings?
Does a suffix go at the beginning or end of a word?
What is end?
What do the common prefixes co-, com-, counter-, & contra- mean?
a. together/with b. to be c. able to be d. to write
What is together/with?
What is the "attitude" a writer takes toward the subject or audience of a poem?
What is tone?
In which point of view does the narrator refer to him by their names or by he, she, or they?
What is third person point of view?
The passage below is an example of what type of organizational pattern?
"Many people think that they can get sick by going into cold weather improperly dressed; however, illnesses are not caused by temperature- they are caused by germs."
What is cause and effect?
What is a biography is an account of a person's life, written by someone else. An autobiography is an account of a person's life, written by that person?