Words Beginning with C or I
Story Words
Literary Devices
Misc. Words
Strategy Words
100
Contribute
What is........ add to; enhance?
100
Main Idea
What is........ the most important idea or guiding topic in a piece of work?
100
Simile
What is........ a figure of speech that compares two things, using like or as?
100
Purpose
What is........ the reason to do something?
100
Unlucky
What is it when you pick a tab that doesn't have a vocabulary word?
200
MSP vocabulary
What is........ the words that are used on the Measurement of Student Progress test given to WA State students in the spring?
200
Resolution
What is....... to come to a solution or decision?
200
Metaphor
What is........ a figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as?
200
Summary
What is........ an outline of the main points in a selection including ideas from the beginning, middle, and end?
200
Inference
What is........ a good guess about something, based on text-based details and prior knowledge?
300
Captions
What is........ text by a picture, map, or chart that gives information?
300
Author's Purpose
What is........ the reason an author writes, such as to entertain, inform, or persuade?
300
Personify
What is........ a figure of speech where nonhuman objects are given human characteristics?
300
Opinion
What is........ a belief or attitude about something based on prior knowledge?
300
Try Again!
What is what you do when you pick this tab instead of a vocabulary word?
400
Influence
What is....... to persuade or cause something to happen?
400
Conflict
What is........ a problem in a story; conflict between opposing forces?
400
Friday, November 19
What is the day of the test?
400
Similarity
What is........ something that is the same?
400
Summarize
What is........ to briefly restate the main ideas from the beginning, middle, and end of a story or selection?
500
Compare
What is........ to explain the similarities or differences between something?
500
Theme
What is........ the main idea, focus or argument throughout the selection?
500
Lunch Detention
What is what you get when you pick this tab? Just joking!
500
Difference
What is.......... something that is different?
500
Predict
What is........ to tell in advance what might happen?
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