Vocab
This is the term for a word that has the same meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?
This is the punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a declarative sentence.
What is a period?
The phrase "as busy as a bee" is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
The word "biology" comes from Greek roots meaning this.
What are "life" and "study"?
A puzzle where letters of a word are rearranged to make a new word, like "listen" to "silent."
What is an anagram?
A word that describes a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
This part of speech describes an action, state, or occurrence.
What is a verb?
When an object or animal is given human characteristics, like "The wind whispered through the trees."
What is personification?
This English word for a Japanese paper-folding art form comes directly from Japanese.
What is origami?
A word or phrase that reads the same forward and backward, like "racecar."
What is a palindrome?
The opposite of a synonym, this is a word with an opposite meaning.
What is an antonym?
The tense used to describe actions that are happening right now.
What is present tense?
This type of figurative language uses extreme exaggeration, like "I’ve told you a million times."
What is hyperbole?
The word "taco" comes from this language.
What is Spanish?
This is a word or phrase that imitates a sound, like "buzz" or "bang."
What is onomatopoeia?
A word that sounds the same as another but has a different meaning and spelling.
What is a homophone?
This is the term for a group of words with a subject and a predicate that can stand alone as a complete sentence.
What is an independent clause?
A phrase with a meaning that cannot be understood from the meanings of its individual words, such as "raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
The word "alphabet" comes from the names of the first two letters in this ancient language.
What is Greek?
A sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet, like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
What is a pangram?
This is the term for a word formed by combining the first letters of several words, like "NASA."
What is an acronym?
The grammatical term for a word that connects two clauses, such as "and," "but," or "or."
What is a conjunction?
The phrase "She sells sea shells by the sea shore" is an example of this literary device.
What is alliteration?
This word meaning "to write quickly" comes from Latin and is often used to describe a machine that prints news.
What is scribble?
This term describes a humorous play on words, often used in jokes, like "I’m reading a book about anti-gravity. It’s impossible to put down."
What is a pun?