Fictional stories in which magical things happen. They usually have fairies, elves, witches as characters.
What is a fairy tale?
100
If you use two negative words to show one negative idea, you may give this.
What is an opposite meaning?
100
Short words or phrases that show emotion.
What are interjections?
100
Another word for "smart guesses".
What are predictions?
100
The three main parts of a writing piece.
What is the introduction, body, and conclusion?
200
The most exciting moment of the story. The character deals with the main conflict for the last time. The turning point of the story.
What is the climax?
200
These show ownership.
What are possessive nouns?
200
Usually found in newspapers, textbooks, news shows on television.
What are facts?
200
Usually found in editorials, letters to an editor, and in debates.
What are opinions?
200
These old good-luck charms are burned in a big bonfire and a new Daruma-san is acquired.
What is a run-on sentence?
300
The way a story is told. The angle or vision or position from which the events are narrated for the reader.
What is a point of view?
300
It is important that the subject and the predicate agree in number. This means that both the subject and predicate of a sentence must be singular, or both must be plural.
What is subject-verb agreement?
300
PLEASURE : SMILE :: PAIN :________
What is grimace?
300
Clue words-Because, since, so, and as a result.
What are clue words that tell you can find cause and effect.
300
Organizing events according to when they occurred in time. This is the best way to organize reports about someone's life or about a time in history.
What is chronological order?
400
1. Look closely at the title. Sometimes you will find a clue about the theme.
2. Are there ideas that are repeated more than once?
3. Look for hints or references within the story.
4. Pay attention to the details in the story. Could they have a greater or deeper meaning?
5. The characters, setting, and plot may also give you clues.
What are tips/ways to identify theme?
400
Three ways to compare persons or things.
What is positive, comparative, superlative?
400
Involves using words like good, proper, right, democracy, patriotism. These words mean different things to different people; they can be used in different ways.
What is glittering generality?
400
(Sally closed the window) because the weather outside was cold.
What is an effect?
400
Sentences that contain specific statements that support the main idea of the paragraph. These will contain relevant and thoughtful details that add to the subject and do not get "off track."
What are Supporting sentences?
500
A fictional story that takes place in a particular time period in the past. Often the setting is real, but the characters are made up.
What is historical fiction?
500
A word placed before a noun (or noun equivalent), indicating the relation of that noun (or noun equivalent) to a verb, an adjective, or another noun (or noun equivalent).
What is a preposition?
500
The two conjunctions that can be used as prepositions.
What is "for" and "but"?
500
Hurricane Katrina hit land in the U.S. in August of 2005. It was the third-strongest hurricane on record to make landfall in the U.S. 1,836 Americans lost their lives in the storm. It was the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. in nearly 80 years.
What is a factual paragraph?
500
The repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyme.
example: ""Hear the mellow wedding bells." - Edgar Allen Poe"