Fiction
Bunnicula is an example of this type of fiction, in which the characters are trying to figure something out.
What is a mystery?
Minn of the Mississippi struggled when her pool shrank to this type of pond, which means "not very deep."
What is shallow?
A form of writing that focuses on the arrangement of words.
What is poetry?
This Greek root means "life."
What is bio?
This Latin root means "water."
What is aqua?
If a story is set in the future and has a plot centered around robots and technology, it most likely falls under this category of fiction.
What is science fiction?
This word means "very easily breakable," like the tips of the American bittern's feathers, which crumble into a dusty powder.
What is brittle?
These types of plural nouns do not end in -s or -es.
What are irregular plurals?
The Greek root "phon" means this?
What is sound?
The Latin root means to break, like when lava breaks out of a volcano.
What is rupt?
Fairy tales are typically this type of fiction, which involves unrealistic or imaginary characters, settings, and events.
What is fantasy?
This is the ability to look or act like something else. For example, a harmless fly that looks and acts like a dangerous bee.
What is mimicry?
This is what it's called when you combine information from two different sources to create new understanding, like we did with "The Weird and Wonderful Echidna" and "The Very Peculiar Platypus."
What is Synthesizing?
This word is a combination of two Greek roots meaning "see" and "distant."
What is telescope?
Words like terrain and territory contain the Latin root that means this.
What is Earth or land?
Because its setting, characters, and events are believable, Minn of the Mississippi is best categorized as this type of fiction.
What is realistic fiction?
Butterflies are able to see this type of color, which is invisible to the human eye.
What is ultraviolet?
This is what you call two letter that combine to form one different sound, like "ow" or "oy".
What are diphthongs?
The word in this list that does not contain a Greek root: stethoscope, thermometer, or aquarium.
What is aquarium?
The word in this list that does *not* contain a Latin root: dictionary, centimeter, or verdict.
What is centimeter?
This is the reason stories like Barbed Wire Baseball and Reaching for the Moon do *not* qualify as historical fiction, even though they describe real places, events, and times in the past.
What is they are not fictional or made-up; they are narrative nonfiction.
These are changes that make a plant or animal better suited to an environment.
What are adaptations?
This type of figurative language compares two things without using "like" or "as." For example, "See my heavenly lavender muffins baking in the sun," describing the flowers of the milkweed.
What is a metaphor?
These two Greek roots help make up the word that means a story written about a person's life.
What are bio and graph?
The meaning of the Latin root contained in the words "distract" and "tractor."
What is to pull or draw?