Literary Elements
This literary device is a comparison using "like" or "as".
Simile
This document begins with "We the People".
Constitution
This is the first step in the scientific method, where you ask a question about something you observe.
forming a hypothesis
This part of speech modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb.
Adverb
This planet is known as the "Red Planet".
Mars
The perspective from which a story is told is called this.
Point of View
This 1803 land purchase from France doubled the size of the United States.
Louisiana Purchase
In an experiment, this is the factor that is changed to test a hypothesis.
independent variable
This punctuation mark is used to show possession or to form contractions.
apostrophe
This ocean is the largest and deepest on Earth.
Pacific Ocean
This term refers to the underlying meaning or message in a work of literature.
Theme
This war, fought from 1861 to 1865, is also known as the War Between the States.
Civil War
This type of experiment is used as a standard of comparison in a scientific experiment.
control group
This type of sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
compound sentence
This famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci is also known as "La Gioconda"
Mona Lisa
A conversation between two or more characters in a story is called this.
Dialouge
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote.
19th Amendment
This is the process of repeating an experiment to see if the original results can be duplicated.
Replication
What is it called when you exclusively write about something?
focus
This number system, using only 0 and 1, is the language of computers.
Binary
This literary technique gives human characteristics to non-human things.
Personification
This period of economic hardship in the 1930s followed the stock market crash of 1929.
Great Depression
This is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon, made on the basis of limited evidence, as a starting point for further investigation.
Hypothesis
This writing technique uses sensory details to create a vivid picture in the reader's mind.
Descriptive writing
This economic principle states that as the price of a good increases, the demand for it decreases, and vice versa.
Supply and Demand