Stop! Grammar Time!
Genres
Stuff in Books
English 101
Science
100

The word for the dictionary definition of a word.

What is the denotation?

100

This genre contains facts and often has text features?

What is non-fiction?

100

One of these is NOT a text feature.

A. Heading

B. Captions

C. Characters

D. Diagrams


What are characters?

100

Something put at the beginning of a root or base word such as dis, un, or de.

dislike


unhappy


detox

What are prefixes?

100

This is required for matter to change forms.

What is heat?

200

Listen to the sentence.

What is whose?

200

This genre is not real but takes place in a time period that really happened.

What is historical fiction?

200

The structure that has you look at how things are similar and how they are different. You often use a venn-diagram to see the differences.

What is Compare and Contrast?

200

Exaggerations in writing.

What are hyperboles?

200

Sun and wind are examples of this type of energy.

What is renewable energy?

300

Two words that have similar meanings like happy and glad.

What are synonyms?

300

When a person publishes a story about their life it is called this.

What is an autobiography?

300

Language that is meant to be taken exactly as it was written. "The boy fell off his chair."

What is literal language?

300

Simile or metaphor?
"She was as quiet as a mouse."

What is a simile?

300

This is the energy of motion.

What is kinetic energy?

400

The narrative form that this is written in: " My mom told me to do my homework. I was upset about it."

What is 1st person narrative?

400

This type of writing usually has a pattern that one can identify.

What is poetry?

400

The overall message of a story.

What is the theme?

400

Endings put on root or base words such as "ly or ful"

What are suffixes?

400
Series and parallel are both examples of this?

What are circuits?

500

Word for words that have opposite meanings.

What are antomyms?

500

A book that is written about the life of someone else.

What is a biography?

500

The words that characters exchange in a story that shows they are talking.

What is dialogue? 

500

Examples would be:

He is a bull.

She is a sheep.

What are metaphors?

500

Electricity moves easily when this is present.

What is a conductor?

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