Root Words
The definition of this root is moon .
What is luna?
A word group that contains a subject, a verb, and a complete thought.
What is a complete sentence?
A comparison between two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The most popular holiday shopping day.
What is Black Friday?
It starts with "P", ends with "E", and has 1,000 letters.
What is post office?
The definition of this root is separate.
What is div?
Part of a sentence that has been punctuated as if it were a complete sentence.
What is a sentence fragmen?
Giving human qualities to non-living things or ideas.
What is personification?
The number of ghosts in A Christmas Carol.
What is four?
It has wheels and flies but is not an aircraft.
What is a garbage truck?
The definition of this root is bend.
What is ang?
If two or more complete sentences run together as if they were one sentence.
What is a run-on sentence?
The repetition of beginning sounds, usually consonants.
What is alliteration?
The tree the partridge sits in.
What is a pear tree?
It's a type of room that has no doors or windows.
What is a mushroom?
The definition of this root empty.
What is vac?
We laughed at the performers. When they rode on gigantic tricycles.
What is a sentence fragment?
Uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
What is hyperbole?
The number of reindeer that pulls Santa's sleigh (including Rudolph).
What is nine?
Until it is measured, it is not known, yet how you miss it when it has flown.
What is time?
The definition of this root is servant/officer.
What is minist?
The Louvre is now a state-owned museum, its new pieces are either bought or received as gifts.
What is a run-on sentence?
Two contradictory terms used together.
What is oxymoron?
Two other names for Santa Claus.
What is Kris Kringle and St. Nick?
If you break me, I do not stop working. If you touch me, I may be snared. If you lose me, nothing will matter.
What is your heart?