This type of word part is attached to the beginning of a root word.
What is a prefix?
100
WHY something happens.
What is the cause?
100
People and animals in the story.
What are characters?
100
This context clue skill requires you to make an educated guess.
What is a gist?
100
Name the figurative device:
She is as pretty as a picture.
What is a simile?
200
This resource is used to look up synonyms and antonyms.
What is a thesaurus?
200
Someone's thoughts or feelings.
What is an opinion?
200
Two types: internal and external.
What is conflict?
200
Paul is a transcriptionist, a person who makes a written copy of a recorded message.
A "transcriptionist" is...
"A person who makes a written copy of a recorded message."
200
Name the figurative device:
The cup jumped right off the counter and crashed onto the floor.
What is personification?
300
Comparing words using a certain type of pattern.
What is an analogy?
300
A poetic paragraph.
What is a stanza?
300
Series of events in the story.
What is plot?
300
Carly is fond of trite, worn-out expressions in her writing. Her favorite is "You can lead a horse to water,
but you can't make him drink."
What is the meaning of "trite?"
"worn-out"
300
Name the figurative device:
Study steadily for your SOL!
What is alliteration?
400
The farmer planted the crop and watered it.
What word in the sentence has a suffix that means "one who?"
What is "farmer?"
400
The reason that an author writes a story or piece of writing.
What is author's purpose?
400
"It was a dark and stormy night on Daimler Dr."
Name the element of fiction being described here.
What is setting?
400
"It was quite a predicament. I needed a costume for the school play, but I couldn't find one at any of the stores."
What is the best definition of predicament?
A. store
B. problem
C. play
D. knight
What is B. problem?
400
Name the figurative device:
My backpack weighs 1,000 lbs!
What is hyperbole?
500
Use this reference material to find statistics about a specific area.
What is an almanac?
500
The attitude or feeling in the story or passage.
What is tone?
500
The abstract main idea--the moral or lesson learned.
What is theme?
500
The book was so flubberbaloo that I could not put it down.
What is the best definition of flubberbaloo?
A. boring
B. sad
C. interesting
D. hard to read
What is C. interesting?
500
Name the figurative device:
The driver beeped her car horn at the car that cut her off in traffic.