6th Grade Vocabulary
This word is a color and it is also used to describe a sad person.
what is blue?
The punctuation that ends a question
What is a question mark
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers is an example of...
What is alliteration
Correct the spelling...
Febuary
February
Charles Dickens
Simile
What is comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
"Ouch! "Boom!" "Pow!" are all examples of what?
onomatopoeia
WHAT IS A METAPHOR
direct comparison of things without using like or as
correct the spelling...
persavere
persevere
Name one of Mrs. Frisby's 4 children
Martin, Teresa, Cynthia, and Timothy
Metaphor
What is a comparison of two unlike things
The first sentence of a paragraph?
What is a topic sentence?
what point of view would an author use to talk directly to the audience
What is second person point of view
fix the error...
I told them to wash there hands.
their
Give a sentence with personification being correctly used
*varies*
Assimilate
What is the process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group.
R.A.C.E
What is restate, answer, cite, and explain.
Fix the sentence...
The Johnsons are going on a trip to canada. The Johnson's car broke down on their way.
Canada (proper nouns are capitalized)
Johnsons' (apostrophe after s because the car belonged to their family, not just one Johnson).
Fix the error...
The water spilling over was the affect of the children horse-playing.
effect
What is the term for words such as radar, kayak, and racecar?
They are palindromes
Culture
What is the beliefs and behaviors that are traditionally practiced by a group of people
R.A.C.E.
What is rewriting the question, answer the question, citation,
what does FANBOYS stand for
What is For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What is the correct spelling of exaust?
exhaust
"on the table", or "under the mistletoe" are examples of what part of speech
prepositional phrase