a part of a word consisting on one uninterrupted sound (can be accented or unaccented)
What is a syllable?
200
a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations
What is a journal or diary?
200
A type of letter that is very formal- written to someone you don't know or who has a position of authority.
What is a business letter?
200
The reading skill in which you are asked to find why something happened and what the result was.
What is cause and effect?
200
the direct or exact opposite
What is an antithesis?
300
The letters added to the beginning of a word that often changes the meaning.
What is a prefix?
300
a book that is published every year with up to date information on things like tallest buildings, state population, and who won the year's biggest sporting events.
What is an almanac?
300
One is a statement that can be proven and the other is someone's thoughts or feelings.
What are facts and opinions?
300
The official term for putting the events of a story in time order.
What is sequencing or chronological order?
300
something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies
What is an archetype?
400
The letters added to the end of a word that often change the meaning.
What is a suffix?
400
A book that gives a list of synonyms (and sometimes antonyms) of words.
What is a thesaurus?
400
The term for words that sound the same but have different meanings and different spellings.
What is a homophone?
400
a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name (Ex: CHAMPS)
What is an acronym?
400
the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business
What is journalism?
500
the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences
What is syntax?
500
The original material, information that is from people who actually experienced what is being talked about.
What is a primary source?
500
The three types of essays we learned about
What are expository, narrative (or personal), and persuasive?
500
A poem with 14 lines usually written in iambic pentameter and usually rhyming
What is a sonnet?
500
Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses