Main Idea and Cause and Effect
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
Prefixes
Parts of speech
100
What do you call the one to two words that explain the subject being discussed
What is topic.
100
A figure of speech that implies a comparison between two relatively unlikely things.
What is a metaphor? 
100
A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.
What is autobiography.
100
Meaning again, or back. 
What is the  "re-"
100
A person place or thing 
What is a noun
200
Why something happens.
What is the cause?
200
A comparison between two unlike things, INCLUDING the words "like" or "as"
What is a simile? 
200
A genre that means it is a made up story but is based on real things in history. 
What is historical fiction. 
200
Meaning below
What is under-
200
A word that describes a noun 
What is an adjective
300
The central point of a piece of writing, also called a gist. 
What is main idea.
300
The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or abstract idea. 
What is a personification?
300
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.
What is nonfiction.
300
Meaning before
What is pre-
300
An action or action word.
What is a verb
400
The effect of what is described in this sentence: Cinderella is out in her carriage after midnight.
What is her carriage turns into a pumpkin.
400
An exaggerated statement used to emphasize and idea or make a point. (Ex: "I've told you a million times...") 
What is a hyperbole?
400
An essential trait of a story that helps the reader understand the time period and place of the events described.
What is setting?
400
Meaning wrong
What is "mis-"
400
An incomplete sentence - either missing a subject or a predicate is called this. 
What is a fragment?
500
A fact, a statement, a quote, or event, that backs up a key idea in your writing. 
What is a supporting detail?
500
The use of words which actually sound like the objects or actions to which they refer. (Ex: The bee buzzed as it flew around the flower)
What is a hyperbole? 
500
The type of voice that gets you off task in your head while you're reading 
What is a distracting voice? 
500
Meaning between
What is "inter-"
500

A word or phrase that modifies an adjective expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc

What is an adverb
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