Greek/Latin Roots
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Figurative Language
100

Greek Root meaning life

What is bio?

100

Wide road with several lanes used for automobile traffic

What is an expressway?

100

Fact or Opinion?  This haiku is very moving.

What is opinion?

100

Comparison of two things using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

200

Latin Root meaning hear

What is aud?

200

Section of a poem or song

What is a verse?

200

How Danny noticed he was in the gardens

What is "it was less noisy"?

200

Comparison of two things without using the words "like" or "as"

What is a metaphor?

300

Latin Root meaning break

What is rupt?

300

Military ruler in Japan in the late 1800s

What is a shogun?

300

Reason the students bowed to Professor Nakano

What is "to show respect"?

300

Words that sound like what they say

What is onomatopoeia?

400

Greek root meaning name

What is onym?

400

Past tense of the verb meaning to think carefully

What is pondered?

400

Reason Danny walked to the bridge

What is "to get some creative inspiration?"

400

Giving something that is not alive human characteristics

What is personification?

500

Latin root meaning empty

What is vac?

500

A deep sadness

What is melancholy?

500

Character trait that makes Danny most like a samurai warrior

What is determined?

500

Repetition of the initial consonant sound

What is alliteration?

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