AFFIXES
POETRY
AUTHOR'S CRAFT
TDA/WRITING
GRAMMAR
100

A Latin prefix that means before.

What is pre-?

100

Not all poems do this.

What is Rhyme?

100

An author uses exaggeration to make a point.

What is hyperbole?

100

The TDA is worth____points on the PSSA Rubric.

What is four(4)?

100

Names a person, place, thing, or idea. 

What is a noun?

200

A Greek suffix that means color.

What is -chrome?

200

Another word for poetry paragraphs.

What is a stanza? 

200

A way of describing something using your senses.

What is imagery?

200

A chart used to organize your evidence and analysis.

What is a T-Chart?

200

A clause that cannot stand alone.

What is a dependent clause? 

300

A Greek prefix that means against?

What is anti-?

300

A group of words arranged in a row.   

What is a line? 

300

An indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.

What is foreshadowing?

300

A statement that is found in the first and last paragraph that gives both the reader and the writer a focus.

What is a thesis statement?

300

A sentence that contains and independent clause and a dependent clause with a subordinating conjunction. 

What is a complex sentence? 

400

A Greek prefix that means 5.

What is pent-?

400

The word "traditional" has 4 _______.

What is syllables?

400

A situation in which the outcome is opposite of what you expect.  

What is irony? 

400

Words used to flow from one idea/paragraph to the next.

What are transitions?

400

FANBOYS Conjunctions

What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so?

500

A root word that means secret

What is -crypto-?

500

"To say something poetically" means to give information in an _______ way.

What is artistic?

500

A reference to a famous historical or literary figure.

What is an allusion? 

500

Another word for "word Choice" on the PSSA rubric. 

What is precise words?

500

The noun or noun phrase that the pronoun refers.

What is an antecedent? 

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