A type of text that includes fairy tales, legends, short stories, and novels
What is fiction
100
"Big" and "dig", "can" and "man", "sing" and "ring" are examples of words that
What is rhyme
100
A statement that is always true
What is a fact
100
The action word in a sentence
What is a verb
200
The prefix mis-, as in mistake, means
What is to do something wrong
200
A type of text that includes textbooks, encyclopedias, newspapers, and biographies
What is nonfiction
200
Words that sound like what they mean (i.e. giggle, click, zoom)
What is onomatopoeia
200
A comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor
200
The past tense of run
What is ran
300
The suffix less-, as in sleepless, means
What is without something
300
The person or people in a story
What are characters
300
Something that is repeated over and over again
What is a pattern
300
When something happens, something else happens as a result
What is cause and effect
300
A word that describes a noun (person, place, or thing)
What is an adjective
400
Words that mean the same thing
What are synonyms
400
The where and when of the story
What is the setting
400
A peanut sat on a railroad track,
Its heart was all a-flutter.
Along came a choo-choo train.
Toot! Toot!
It was peanut butter.
The onomatopoeia in the poem
What is Toot!
400
When authors write about events in the order that they happened
What is sequence
400
A word that describes a verb (action word) and typically ends in -ly
What is an adverb
500
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings
What are homophones
500
The beginning, the middle, and the end
What is the plot
500
The way the lines sound in a poem when you read them and can have sort of bounce that makes poems run to hear and read.
What is rhythm
500
This is what a story or passage is mostly about and it helps you understand the passage better.
What is main idea
500
The adverb in the sentence, "The beautiful horse trotted gracefully across the meadow."