Parts of Speech
Very Vocab
Map Skills
Figurative Language
Text Structure
100

A person, place, animal, or thing

a noun

100

Something that is silly or ridiculous

absurd

100

What are the four cardinal directions?

North, South, East, and West

100

Compares two things using like or as

simile

100

to explain what happened and why it happened

Cause and effect

200
Describes a noun

an adjective

200

Something someone says to anger or make fun of someone else

taunt

200

The name of the line at 0 degrees latitude

the equator
200

overstating something

hyperbole/exaggeration

200

to explain events in order

sequence

300

An action word

Verb

300

You lose something because you have broken a rule or given up the game

forfeit

300

The intermediate directions

Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, Southwest

300

Comparing to things NOT using like or as

metaphor

300

What does problem/solution text structure explain?

shows a problem and how it is solved

400

Connects other words, phrases, or clauses together

Conjunction

400

When you hate something

Despised

400

The continent that is in all four hemispheres

Africa

400

Giving human-like qualities to nonhuman things

Personification

400

Describes how things are alike and different

Compare & Contrast

500

Describes a verb

An adverb

500

If something is dressed or decorated in this way, it has many complex or artistic details

Elaborately

500

The name of the line at 0 degrees longitude

prime meridian

500

a phrase that actually means something different from its literal meaning.

idiom

500

The text structure an instruction manual to build a lego house would use

Sequence

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