Word Watch
This root word means "to hear," found in words like audience and auditorium.
What is aud?
In a scary movie, the audience knows the killer is in the closet, but the character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
This is the literal, "dictionary definition" of a word.
What is denotation?
This, that, these, and those are known as this type of pronoun.
What are demonstrative pronouns?
This genre involves a story set in the past, often involving real places or events but fictional characters.
What is historical fiction?
When you use nearby words to figure out a "mystery word," you are using these.
What are context clues?
You spend an hour washing your car, and it immediately starts to rain.
What is situational irony?
While "economical" and "cheap" both mean saving money, "cheap" has a negative ______.
What is connotation?
In the sentence "The cat jumped," the bolded word is this type of verb.
What is an action verb?
A story that is written to be performed by actors on a stage.
What is drama?
This 10-letter word uses the root man (hand) and means to "hand-build" or produce something on a large scale.
What is manufacture?
A character steps out into a hurricane and says, "What nice weather we're having!"
What is verbal irony?
"He is a shining star" is this type of figurative language.
What is a metaphor?
Am, is, are, was, and were are common examples of these verbs that connect the subject to a description.
What are linking verbs?
The Greek root phone means this...
What is sound?
These two roots mean "hand" and "foot," respectively.
What are 'man' and 'ped'?
"I just love spending my Friday nights grading 150 essays," said the exhausted teacher. This is an example of...
What is verbal irony or sarcasm?
Which word has a more positive connotation to describe someone who doesn't spend much money: Stingy or Thrifty?
What is thrifty?
If a speaker’s voice is "audible," the root aud tells us the voice can be ______.
What is heard?
This literary device is an extreme exaggeration, such as "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
What is hyperbole?
An analogy: Finger is to Hand as Leaf is to Tree. This relationship is called...
What is 'part-to-whole'?
"The wind whispered through the trees" is an example of this specific literary device.
A magazine article informs readers about a volcano that erupted in Hawaii, as well as the destruction that happened as a result. This text structure is ...
What is cause and effect?
Identify the Greek/Latin root in "Vector" or "Convection" that means "to carry."
What is vect?
This text structure organizes information by the time or order in which events occurred.
What is chronological order or sequence of events?