GENRE
WORD STUDY
Latin and Greek Roots
Academic Vocabulary
ABC ORDER
100

A make believe story with characters and a plot.

What is fiction?

100

Shelly ______ (won/one) the soccer game yesterday.

What is won?

100

What is the meaning of the Latinroot - "act"?  As in the words: actor, action, react, transact,enact.

What is do?

100

Define: Chronological Order.

What is according to when things happened?

100

Put these words in ABC order: grape, gum, goofy, grumpy

What is goofy, grape, grumpy, gum?

200

A newspaper article with facts and information.

What is nonfiction?

200

This is a synonym for pretty.

What is beautiful?

200

What is the meaning of the Greek root biblio? As in the wordsL bibliography, Bible, bibliophile

What is book?

200

Define: graphic novel.

What is a novel in comic-strip format?

200

Put these words in ABC order: cookie, crunch, cool, cracker

What is cookie, cool, cracker, crunch?

300

A story in which the characters act like real people even though it is a made up story.

What is realistic fiction?

300

How many syllables are in the word information?

What is four?

300

What is the meaning of the Lation root aqua?  As used in the wordsL aquarium, aquatic, aquamarine, and aquifer.

What is water?

300

What is Science Fiction?

What is fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances and major social or environmental changes, frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets?

300

This is a part of a nonfiction book that lists the meaning of bold words in ABC order in the back.

What is the glossary?

400

A story of a real person's life written by that person.

What is an autobiography?

400

Pick the homophone that fits both sentences and spell both correctly.

Dad bought a _______ car.  

Patrick ______ the answer to the question.

What are new and knew?

400

What is the meaning of the Greek root meter?

As in the wordsL thermometer, centimeter, diameter, and barometer.

What is measure?

400

What are character traits?

What are descriptive words? Character traits are valued aspects of a person's behavior. Everyone has character traits, both good and bad, including our favorite fictional characters. Character traits are often labeled with descriptive adjectives such as patient, unfaithful, or jealous. ... This would make honesty one of her character traits.

400

Tell which of these words fits between the guide words pillow and push.

pumpkin, plush, penguin, puzzle, pinch

What are pumpkin, plush, and pinch?

500

A fictional story with magic, events that happen in three's, good and evil, royalty, and often starts with "Once upon a time".

What is a fairy tale?

500

This is the contraction for the words she and would.

What is she'd?

500

What is the meaning of the Greek root cycle? As used in the words cycle, bicycle, recycle, cyclone, and encyclopedia?

What is circle or ring?

500

The computers at school are old dinosaurs.

Name the figurative language in the above sentence.

What is a metaphor?

500

Tell which one word does not fit between the guide words allow and average.

ask, action, allowance, attitude, animal

What is action?

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