Vocabulary
The word lighten means to
A. make lighter
B. turn on a light
C. make a light brighter
D. shine light on one spot
What is make lighter?
What is the plural form of the word tooth?
What is teeth?
We watched three _______ on television last night.
A. show
B. showes
C. showing
D. shows
What type of figurative language compares two things using like or as?
What is a simile?
Buzz is an example of what literary term?
What is an onomatopoeia?
Which of the following words refers to a "tool to look at something quite small"?
A. micrometer
B. micron
C. microscope
D. microwave
What is microscope?
_____ going to have so much fun!
A. Your
B. You're
What is you're?
Tomorrow, we _____ go to the museum and see the space exhibit.
A. go
B. went
C. will go
D. will have gone
What is will go?
What is the repetition of the same consonant sounds in the beginning?
What is alliteration?
Which of these homophones refers to a food?
A. Met
B. Meet
C. Meat
What is meat?
Which word has a word part that means "below"?
A. astronaut
B. forefather
C. interrupt
D. submarine
What is submarine?
What does the root word port in the word portable tell you about the word?
A. It is a place to rest.
B. It relates to water.
C. It involves movement.
D. It is found on a map.
What is it involves movement?
Cats are said to have nine _____.
A. lifes
B. life
C. lives
D. live
What are lives?
This type of figurative language means giving human qualities to non-human or non-living things.
What is personification?
Which of the following should always be capitalized?
A. river
B. school
C. month
D. all of the above
What is month?
What is the definition of synthesize?
What is a combination of ideas?
I am going to the mall _____.
A. to
B. too
C. two
D. none of the above
What is too?
______ going to the park.
A. they
B. their
C. they're
D. there
What is they're?
What type of figurative language is this? "The boy was a sky scrapper towering over all the other students."
What is a metaphor?
What is the definition of a hyperbole?
What is an exaggeration?
Define the following words:
1. Theme
2. Purpose
3. Persuade
What is...
Theme: a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative
Purpose: the reason for the author writing
Persuade: to make someone do or believe something by giving them a good reason to do it or by talking to that person and making them believe it
Which of the following words is divided correctly?
A. ve/hi/cle
B. de/cis/ion
C. con/nect/ion
D. gen/er/ati/on
What is ve/hi/cle?
True or False: There is a mistake in the following sentence.
I fly on the airplane yesterday.
What is true.
I flew on the airplane yesterday.
What type of figurative language is this? "I'm so hungry I could eat a cow."
What is a hyperbole?
What are the parts of an essay?
What is an introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion?