Vocabulary
Literary Terms
War of the Worlds
Common Sense
Abbreviations
100
A picture for displaying information in a specific order or layout.
What is a Graph?
100
A pattern of sounds that include the repetition of consonant sounds.
What is Alliteration?
100
An alien weapon used in the movies and radio broadcast.
What is a Heat Ray?
100
The Capital of the United States of America
What is Washington DC?
100
Examples: absent, absinence.
What is a, ab,abs?
200
A book where definitions to words are found.
What is a Dictionary?
200
The conversation between characters in a drama or narrative.
What is dialogue?
200
The one thing that ended the Martians in all.
What is Earth bacteria?
200
The 3rd planet in the Solar System that can support life.
What is The Earth?
200
Example: preamble, predawn, preface
What is Pre-?
300
A device that you can put in your pocket and communicate with another individual.
What is a Cell phone?
300
A type of literature (the overall name0
What is Genre?
300
The city where the 1953 movie took place
What is Los Angelas?
300
The best reading teacher at Escambia!
Who is Ms. Coxwell?
300
Examples: Anit-inflammatory, anihistamine, anitsocial.
What is Anti-?
400
A sheet of paper that displays the outlines of an area.
What is a map?
400
A literary term referring to how a person, situation, statement, or circumstance is not as it would actually seem.
What is Irony?
400
The of the main character in the radio broadcast.
Who is Proffessor Pierson?
400
A necessity to life that covers 75% of the earth today.
What is water?
400
Examples: Malpractice, maladgusted, maleficence.
What is Mal-?
500
A building for young people to go and learn skills for the future.
What is school?
500
A collection of sounds Boom! Zap! Zing!
What is Onomatopoeia?
500
The author and creator of War of the Worlds.
Who is H.G.Wells?
500
This being walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening.
What is Man?
500
Example: Bicycle, Biped, Bisect
What is bi,bis?
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