A word part added to the beginning of a root word that changes the meaning of the root word.
What is a prefix?
100
Two words that have nearly the same meaning, like "watch & look".
What is a synonym?
100
This type of essay requires you to firmly take a position or state your opinion, and use evidence to support yourself.
What is a persuasive essay?
200
Giving inanimate objects, human characteristics.
What is Personification?
200
A word that describes nouns or pronouns.
What is an adjective?
200
This will help you separate lists, words at the beginnings of sentences, or addresses.
What is a comma?
200
Two words that have opposite meanings, like "immense & tiny."
What is an antonym?
200
Writing about events in the order in which they occur is a form of this type of writing.
What is sequencing events?
300
An extreme exaggeration
What is a Hyperbole?
300
A word that either tells what the subject is doing or describes a state of being.
What is a verb?
300
A word part added to the end of a root word that can change the meaning of the word.
What is a suffix?
300
Two or more single words that are put together to make a new word without changing the spelling, such as baseball.
What is a compound word?
300
Restate your topic sentence, rephrase your main reasons, and express your feelings and thoughts are strategies to use when writing this part of an essay.
What is the wrap-up or conclusion?
400
It's meaning can not be understood through its words.
What is an Idiom?
400
A word that can take the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
400
A word that names a specific person, place, or thing that must be capitalized, like Philadelphia or April.
What is a proper noun?
400
A shortened word made by joining two words together. Some letters of one word are dropped and an apostrophe takes their place.
What is a contraction?
400
The following sentence is an example of this common writing mistake: "I wanted to ask my mother why her parents didn't live in the same state my brother told me why and I felt better after he did."
What is a run-on sentence?
500
"Mary was a mother hen to the children." This is an example of...
What is a Metaphor?
500
A word that describes a verb usually ending with -ly.
What is an adverb?
500
The best way to make a word ending with double s plural just like in the words "glass and class" is to add this.
What is -es?
500
Words that sound alike but have different spellings and meanings, such as "week & weak."
What are homophones?
500
Three strategies that will help you write a strong introduction.
What are asking a question, making a strong statement, and using dialogue?