Seed Science
This part of the plant anchors it in the soil and absorbs water.
What are roots?
The person, animal, or creature who faces the main conflict in a story.
What is the protagonist or main character?
This root word means "life."
What is bio? As in biography.
This literary device gives human traits to animals, objects, or plants.
What is personification?
Which famous doctor wrote "The Lorax?"
Who is Dr. Seuss?
The process of a seed beginning to sprout and grow.
What is germination?
The time and place where a story happens.
What is the setting?
This prefix means "before."
What is pre? As in preview or prehistoric.
A conclusion readers make using clues from the text and their own thinking.
What is an inference?
True or False: Bamboo is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world.
True.
Plants use this process to turn sunlight into food.
What is photosynthesis?
The struggle or problem that drives a story forward.
What is conflict?
This root word means "to write."
What is graph? As in autograph or biography.
When an object in a story represents a deeper meaning, it becomes this...
What is a symbol?
What do bees help plants do?
What is pollinate?
This gas from the air is used by plants during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
The message or lesson an author wants readers to understand.
What is the theme?
This suffix means "the study of."
What is ology? As in geology or biology.
An author creates this when descriptive words help readers picture a scene...
What is imagery?
The layer of dead leaves and plants that naturally breaks down to enrich soil is called this.
What is compost?
This process happens when pollen moves from one flower to another to help plants reproduce.
What is pollination?
A story told by someone outside the story using "he," "she," or "they," often uses this point of view.
What is third-person point of view?
The Latin root "terra" gives words their connection to this natural feature.
What is Earth or land? As in territory.
A forest in a novel might represent danger, mystery, or growth; this use of setting reflects deeper meaning.
What is symbolism?
This figure of speech compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as..."
What is a metaphor?