Prefixes and Suffixes
Root Words
Literature Terms
Mixed Bag
Direction Words
100
"Pre"
What is "before"
100
"cred"
What means "to believe"?
100
Antagonist
Who is the "bad guy" in the story?
100
Get a good night's sleep the night before
What is important to do when you have a big test the next day?
100
Compare
What means to show similarities or shows how things are alike?
200
"de" or "dis"
What is "Away from" or " the opposite of"?
200
"Fac"
What means "to do" or "to make"?
200
The point in the story where you know the main problem is going to be resolved one way or the other. Often (but not always) the most exciting point in story.
What is "climax"
200
Read the questions first.
What you should do when you first get your test
200
Contrast
What means to show only how things are different from each other?
300
"-er", or "-or", or "-ist"
What is "a person or thing that does something"
300
Script or Scrib
What means "to write"?
300
The general truth about life or lesson contained in the story.
What is the "moral" or "theme" of the story?
300
The boy slept like a log.
What is a simile
300
Analyze
What means to "explain in depth how things are related to one another"
400
"-ship" or "-ment"
What means "the condition of" or "the act or process of"
400
"man"
What means "hand"?
400
The sections of a poem that are similar to paragraphs in a short story.
What are "stanzas"
400
The man is a bear.
What is a metaphor
400
Identify
What means to "place a person or event in time"
500
"-able" or "-ible"
What means "can" or "able to be"?
500
Log
What means "word" or "speech" or "reason" or "science" or "theory of"
500
The general outline of the story which contains the setting, the characters, the rising action (various conflicts), the climax, and the resolution.
What is "the plot"
500
A word that means the "opposite" of the given word .
What is an "antonym" ?
500
"Illustrate" or "List"
What means to "give examples"
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