Secret of NYM
What are antonyms?
This is a statement that cannot be proven. It communicates someone's feeling or judgment.
What is an opinion?
This is the part of the story where the problem is resolved.
What is the resolution?
These words imitate sounds. Example: Bark! Ow! Beep!
What are onomatopoeia?
These are words that describe or modify nouns.
What are adjectives?
A struggle or problem a character faces in a story.
What is conflict?
This is the word given to words that mean nearly the same thing. Example: Big and huge.
What are synonyms?
This is what the passage is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
The place and time where a story takes place.
What is the setting?
Words that repeat the same beginning sound. Example: Ryan runs rapidly.
What is alliteration?
These are words that describe positions or locations. Examples: in, on, under, up beside, with.
What are prepositions?
These words describe finding differences and similarities:
What are compare and contrast?
This is the name given to words that sound the same but have different meanings. Example: Flower and flour.
What is homophone/homonym?
This is the text structure where events are listed in time order.
What is chronological?
This is the central idea or message in a story.
What is theme?
This is an example of what type of literary device: The wind gently touched her cheek.
What is personification?
These are words that connect two or more words or sentences. Examples: for, and, but, so.
What are conjunctions?
The author's attitude toward the subject, shown through word choice and style.
What is tone?
Which word best completes the following sentence: ______ is the book on the shelf. (They're, Their, There)
What is "There"?
This is the text feature that gives clues to the main idea of a section.
What is a heading?
This is the turning point in a story.
What is climax?
This is what you call the "paragraphs" in a poem; groups of lines of poetry separated by space.
What are stanzas?
These are words that show excitement or an interruption. Examples: Hey! Wow!
What are interjections?
This is a group of letters added to the beginning of a root word. It changes the meaning of the word.
What is a prefix?
Out of antonym, homonym, or synonym, this describes this pair of words: dull and boring
What is synonym?
This is how an author thinks or feels about a topic.
What is the author's viewpoint?
What is the exposition? What does it include?
What is the beginning of the story? Introduces the characters and setting.
What type of figurative language is this: Time is money.
What is metaphor?
Identify all the pronouns and prepositions in this sentence:
"After she finished her homework, Mia placed it on the table beside the window."
What are she, her, after, on, and beside?
What does it mean to infer?
What is to make a guess based on evidence and reasoning, not something directly stated?