Animals
Root Words
Figurative Language
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous 2
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A baby horse is a
foal
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What does photo mean?
Light
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Give an example of a simile
He was as shy as a mouse and as playful as a kitten
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All points of the compass (in order!) Extra points!!
north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-west, west, north-west
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What is the difference between a fact and an opinion?
A fact is a true piece of information and an opinion is what "I" think
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An octopus has 8 .......
tentacles
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In the word telephone what does the part phone mean?
distance, far off
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It was a windy day.
Uplevel this sentence
It was a blustery cold November day
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When I jumble up letters to make a new word, it is called a........... (eg pea becomes ape)
An anagram
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The imaginary that lines go up, down and around the globe. There are 4 (6!) answers.
What are the Equator, Prime Meridian, latitude and longitude?
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A baby cow is a ....
a calf
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What does the word inaudible mean?
Extra points explain the root word and the prefix/suffix
difficult or impossible to hear
aud = hear
in = negative
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Give a metaphor for someone you know
She is a wise old owl
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Hand is to wrist as foot is to.......
Ankle
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A book all about the future or a fantasy world.
Science-fiction
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A male deer has two ....... on its head
antlers
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In microscope, what does the root word scope mean?
to see
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An example of onomatopoeia to describe fireworks
Boom, bang, crack, crash, whistle, hiss, hush.
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What is the antonym of generous?
Mean, stingy
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A recipe is an example of what type of text?
Instructive
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A baby deer is called a ......
a fawn
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Someone who speaks 3 languages is called.....
Trilingual
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Personification for the sun
Majestic, kindly, smiled, beamed, peeked, glared
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A cross between rain and snow is called......
Sleet
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A snowstorm is also called a ......
Blizzard
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A fish has slits on the side of its head for breathing. What are they called?
Gills
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Give two words with the root word bio
Biology, Biochemistry, biography, autobiography
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The fierce forest fire raged through the night.
Spot the language device (s)
Alliteration. And personification
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cheese is to milk as bread is to ......
flour
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A beautiful colour, like a red crystal
ruby red
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What is the fastest land animal (and spell it!)
A cheetah
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What does an astronomer do?
He studies stars
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An onomatopoeic word (verb) for when I eat noodle soup!
slurp
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Neighing is to horse as .......... is to cow
mooing
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A text that tries to make you change your mind is a ............. text
persuasive
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Another word for poisonous (as in a ...................... snake)
venomous
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What is an omnivore?
Something that eats everything
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The wind screamed through the forest.
Name the figurative language used here.
Personification
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This country shares its southern border with the United States.
Extra points: and one of the US's territories is on western border
Canada. Alaska
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rain in very small light drops
drizzle
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An animal from South America with a woolly coat that can sometimes spit! (It is related to the camel)
a llama or alpaca
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Give 2 words with the root word struct
construct, destruction, reconstruction, structure, restructure, constructively
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This figure of speech is being used in this sentence “The boy felt like a lion because he was so courageous”
A simile
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Lumps of ice that fall from the sky
Hail
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The bird flew over the mountains.
Start the sentence with a fronted adverbial. Add a simile or an adverb
Over the mountain the bird flew swiftly (like an arrow)
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Animals can be wild or ............
tame or domesticated
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What is a biped?
A creature with 2 legs.
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"The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor." What figurative language is used here?
A metaphor.
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Capital letters, commas. exclamation marks, full stops etc are all called .........
Extra points, what is this caled and when do you use it ;
Punctuation!
Semi-colon. Used between lists or to link two ideas in a sentence.
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How many purposes can you think of for a text?
instructive, persuasive, descriptive, informative, entertaining