Grammar
A short form of a word or phrase
What is an abbreviation
This is a form of figurative language that uses the repetition of the same beginning sound.
What is alliteration?
Individuals that are reached by means of television, radio, or printed material.
What is an audience?
Examing parts to understand how they work together to create meaning as a whole.
What is analyze?
This can be added to the root of a word to change it's meaning.
What is an affix?
A verb that expresses action
What is an action verb?
Features that identify someone or something.
What are characteristics?
A person who writes books, stories, or plays.
What is an author?
A sentence or phrase written under a picture to tell about or explain the picture.
What is a caption?
A word having a meaning that is the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun is referring.
What is an antecedent?
To tell or write about something, creating a clear, detailed image.
What is to describe or description?
This is the reason the author created their writing.
What is the author's purpose?
A text structure that explains why things happen.
What is cause and effect?
Words that are spelled the same but sound different.
What are homographs?
Words containing a subject and predicate, and then become a part of a compound or complex sentence.
What is a clause?
The feeling or atmosphere that the writer creates for the reader.
What is mood?
This is the story of a person's life told by that person.
What is an autobiography?
A person in a story, place, or movie.
What is a character?
Words that can form other words; you can add prefixes and suffixes to these to create new words.
What are roots?
A sentence containing at least on independent and one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
A phrase or expression in which the meaning is different than the literal meaning of the words.
What is an idiom?
A list of books referred to in a scholarly work, usually printed in the appendix.
What is a bibliography?
A list of events in the order in which they occur.
What is chronological order
Words that have the same or nearly the same meaning as other words.
What are synonyms?