Vocabulary
Types of Sentences
Poetry
Non-Fiction Text
Affixes & Roots
100

A contemptuous/mocking smile, remark, or tone.

What is a sneer?

100
The type of sentence that uses only 1 subject and 1 predicate.

What is a simple sentence?

100

Discussing the similarities and differences of two or more things.

What is compare and contrast?

100

A line of text usually under a picture/diagram that gives more information about it.

What are captions?

100

A group of letters before a root word.

What is a prefix?

200

Strong beliefs that something will happen.

What are expectations?

200

The F in the acronym F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.

What is For?

200

How you feel after reading something.

What is mood?

200

A link, usually coloured and underlined, that takes you to a website.

What is a hyperlink?

200

The prefix meaning wrong or wrongly.

What is mis-?

300

The word meaning attractively unusual or old-fashioned.

What is quaint?

300

The type of sentence that has 1 independent and 1 dependent clause.

What are complex sentences?

300

A line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.

What is pentameter?

300

A name of a part of an object, usually placed near a diagram.

What is a label?

300

The suffix meaning without.

What is -less?

400

A sensation of whirling and loss of balance.

What is vertigo?

400

An error in which a comma connects two independent clauses.

What are comma splices?

400

Type of meter that goes "unstressed, stressed."

What is iamb?

400

A small photo/picture/map inside or next to a larger picture. Usually magnifies the larger one.

What is an inset?

400

The latin root meaning water.

What is aqua?

500

The quality of being fluent or persuasive speaking or writing.

What is eloquence?

500

A type of sentence that uses at least 2 independent clauses and at least 1 dependent clause.

What is a compound-complex sentence?

500
This type of poem has 14 lines with the last 2 called a couplet. It typically uses iambic pentameter.

What is a sonnet?

500

A picture of something that has been cut in half with the cut half facing forward so the innards are revealed.

What is a cross-section?

500
The root word meaning bad or wrongful.

What is mal?

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