A list of the major parts of the book. It gives the page number where you can find each part. This is located at the front of a book.
What are the table of contents?
100
Adam asked Alisha for an apple.
What is alliteration?
100
The first thing you do before writing a paper.
What is brainstorm?
100
1. Look at the word. 2. Say the word. 3. Spell the word out loud. 4. Copy the word. 5. COver, write, and spell the new word.
What are the steps to learning a new word.
100
Prefix meaning "not".
What is -dis?
200
Skits and plays belong to this drama and can be fiction or nonfiction. These are not written in paragraph form.
What is a drama?
200
She wanted a pear for Tasha's bear.
What are rhyming words?
200
A kind of graphic scheme of the organization of your paper.
What is an outline?
200
Using the information around the word you don't know. These words help you find what it means. You can also use the information in the rest of the paragraph to help you figure out what the word means.
What are context clues?
200
This includes two different types of word parts: prefixes and suffixes.
What are affixes?
300
A shorter way to tell about a passage. It tells the most important details or events of a story or article. It does not tell all of the details of a passage.
What is a summary?
300
The car ran over my foot.
What is personification?
300
A special form of a web diagram for exploring knowledge and gathering and sharing information. This map consists of nodes or cells that contain a concept, item or question and links.
What is a semantic map?
300
Advertisements are designed to do this so that you buy a certain product. Speeches by politicians are also examples of this.
What is persuasion?
300
This occurs when two or more sentences are joined together without the correct punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
400
A series of events that lead to the climax. These events help build up the excitement in the story. Building up the excitement makes the reader want to know what is going to happen next. This usually shows the main character in a struggle of some sort. He or she experiences problems and hurdles. It also describes what the character does to try to solve his or her problem.
What is the rising action in a plot?
400
The lion roared at the onlookers to see if he could scare them.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
This sets the tone for the rest of your story, paper, or report.
What is an introduction?
400
Words and phrases that are considered very informal and are generally used only by one age group or other specific group of people.
Example: tight, cool, sweet, you guys, chill, bomb, dog, y'all, ain't
What is slang?
400
This is created when a writer breaks a sentence into parts, leaving one part that is not a complete sentence.
What is a sentence fragment?
500
This happens right after the climax. Here, the action starts to calm down. The characters react to what happens in the climax. The effects of the climax are described. This leads the reader to the conclusion of the story.
What is the falling action?
500
This helps you understand how events in a story are connected. It also helps you understand why a character acts in a certain way.
What is cause/effect?
500
The five parts of the writing process.
What are brainstorming, rough draft, editing, proofreading, and final copy?
500
Words or expressions used within one group, profession, or business. This is often used as a "shortcut" to convey information quickly, with just a few words.
Example: Gabriella Sabatini aced her opponent with her powerful first serve. (An "ace" in tennis means a serve that's so fast or well-placed that the other player can't even touch it with his or her racket.)