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What is a synonym for fast?
Quick, speedy, etc.
What are these: " "
Quotation marks
Name the spelling error.
Mrs. Crow teachs math at my school.
Teaches.
What is a synonym for "happy"?
joyful, cheerful, or glad
What is the most important idea in a text or paragraph?
Main Idea
What is an antonym for cold?
Hot, warm, etc.
Fact or opinion: "I think green beans taste like grass."
Opinion
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
Similes compare using "like" or "as"
Metaphor figure of speech that compares two unrelated things.
Which point of view uses the words "I" or "we"?
First person
This is when you retell a story's main events in your own words.
Summarizing
What two words make the contraction "hasn't"?
Has + not
What is an example of a verb?
run, skip, walk, jump, etc
Simile or metaphor?
I am as hungry as a horse.
Simile
This is located at the end of a book and gives definitions for difficult words
Glossary
This is a life lesson learned in a text
Theme
Which verb tense is correct?
There ______ 16 cows in the barn.
(Is / Are)
Are
What word is a verb in the following sentence?
Tony slithered quietly down the hallway.
slithered
Simile or metaphor?
The sky is an ocean.
Metaphor
"Time is a thief" is an example of this type of figurative language
Metaphor
A story with talking animals or magical events is usually part of this genre.
Fantasy
What is the word for copying someone else's work or claiming someone else's work as your own?
Plagiarism
Emily assumed her mom washed her shirt because it was missing.
What does the word assumed mean?
suspected or guessed
Simile or metaphor?
When I heard about the party being cancelled, I felt as deflated as an old balloon.
Simile
A group of lines in a poem
Stanza
Words or phrases around an unfamiliar word that help you figure out its meaning.
Context Clues
What is a word that describes a verb?
Adverb
What is it called when we put together what we already know about something together with what we read?
An inference
My mom's spaghetti is very filling. The school's spaghetti leaves me with an empty feeling.
The underlined words in the sentence above are examples of which of the following? (Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms)
Antonyms
The lesson or message a story teaches
Theme
The summing up of a text with the reader's own thinking
Conclusion
Words or phrases that help make connections between phrases, sentences, or paragraphs
(example: First, Next, Then, Last)
Transition words
My new pants were on (sale/sail) at the store.
My soccer team (beet/beat) our rivals.
Sale / beat
Unscramble the letters to discover a word that means "to make into small pieces"
r a g e t
grate
The author's purpose when they are trying to convince you to do something
Persuade
This type of figurative language is an extreme exaggeration, like "I'm so tired I could sleep for a year."
Hyperbole