Word Relationships
The difference between synonyms and antonyms
What is: synonyms are words that have similar/the same meanings and antonyms are words that have opposite meanings?
The difference between similes and metaphors.
What is: similes are a comparison of two unlike objects/people using the words “like” or “as” and a metaphor is the same, but without using the words “like or as”?
The name of a text located on the front cover or at the beginning of a chapter
What is a title?
The message of a story.
What is the theme?
The title of the article by Lauren Tarshis about the Great Peshtigo Fire.
What is “The Blood Red Night”.
In the word “helpless”, -less is this.
What is the suffix?
The sentence “The branches on the tree danced in the wind” is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
Additional text (not the main body of text) within a box, often with a shaded background; located at the sides, top, or bottom of a page
What is a sidebar?
The part of the plot in which characters and setting are introduced.
What is Exposition?
The color of the sweater in “Eleven” by Sandra Cisneros.
What is red?
In the word “preheat”, pre- is this.
What is the prefix?
The type of figurative language in which the author utilizes exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
Text located near a graphic, feature (such as a picture, map, diagram, etc.) that explains what it is
What is a caption?
A question you could ask yourself if trying to figure out the theme of a text.
Answers may vary.
Ex.
- What is the author trying to tell me?
- What value is being emphasized throughout the story?
- What did the characters do in the resolution that allowed them to "solve the problem"?
- How did the characters' thinking change over time?
- If my parents were reading this to me, at the end, they would say, "See __________"
The name of a poem we used to practice identifying and proving theme.
Answers may vary.
Ex. What is “Humpty Dumpty”
Words that have the same sound, but a different meaning or spelling.
What is a homophone?
The type of figurative language in the following sentence: “That dog is furball waiting to be angered by Nellie the Cat.”
What is a metaphor?
Font slanted to the right within the main body of text
What are italics?
An example of something theme is NOT.
Answers may vary.
Ex. What is expressed as a single word?
What is the purpose of the text?
What is the conflict of the text?
What is the moral of the text?
The real reason the wolf went to the pigs’ homes in the first place in “The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs”.
What is to borrow sugar for his grandmother’s birthday cake?
An example of a word that has both a suffix and prefix.
Answers may vary.
Ex. What is "revengeful"?
An example of an idiom.
Answers may vary.
Ex. What is when pigs fly?
A phonetic representation of a word usually located in parentheses after the word has appeared in the text
What is a Pronunciation Guide?
The 5 parts of the story mountain in order.
What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution?
The name of the poem from which this stanza was taken.
“It has random letters
and numbers galore,
with dozens of symbols
and spaces and more.” (Nesbit)
What is “I Made a New Password” by Ken Nesbit?