Level 1
What is a Noun?
A person, place, or thing
Ex: Jerry, Costco, paper
What is a Prefix?
a word, letter, or number placed before another.
Ex: pre-read
What is Alliteration?
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Ex: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
alliteration
A person, place, or thing
noun
What is a Verb?
A verb is a word that expresses an action, an event, or a state of being, essentially describing what someone or something does or what happens to them.
Ex: run, running, has run
What is a Suffix?
A suffix is a letter or group of letters added to the end of a word to modify its meaning, change its part of speech, or create a new word.
prereadingWhat is someone's Point of View?
a particular attitude or way of considering a matter.
Ex: first-person ("I"), second-person ("you"), and third-person ("he/she/they")
What vocab word describes this: I have a mountain of homework.
Hyperbole
a word that expresses an action, an event, or a state of being, essentially describing what someone or something does or what happens to them.
verb
What is an Adjective?
A word that describes a noun or pronoun.
Ex: The dog is ridiculous
What is an Affix?
pre-read-ing
What is a Hyperbole?
exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Ex: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What vocab word describes this: Calvin's a walking foreign dictionary.
Metaphor
A word that describes a noun or pronoun.
ajictive
What is an Adverb?
A word that evaluates another (i.e. a verb, adjective, noun, etc.)
Ex: They read the book carefully.
What is a Theme?
the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
Ex: horror, comedy, etc.
What is Personification?
Ex: The flowers danced in the wind.
What is a Connotation?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Ex: "home" can connote warmth and comfort, while "house" is more neutral.
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
metaphor
What is a Simile?
Comparing two things using like or as.
Ex: The squirrel is as small as a baseball
The dog was fast, like a jet.
What is a Metaphor?
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. (Like a simile, but without 'like' or 'as')
Ex: The classroom was a zoo.
What does it mean when an author is Foreshadowing?
be a warning or indication of (a future event).
Ex: Romeo and Juliet: The prologue directly foreshadows the tragic ending, stating that the lovers will die.
What is a Denotation?
The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
Ex: The boy was pushy. (He was literally pushing people.)
The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
denotation