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Figurative Language
Vit and Viv Words
Prefixes and Roots
Roots
100
A treatment for the hands.
What is a manicure?
100
These are flowery and fancy words usually found in poetry. These words usually say one thing but mean another.
What is figurative language?
100
To live through a terrible event. EX: A person who lives through cancer or a car crash.
What is a survivor?
100
A prefix that means "again".
What is RE?
100
The root that means to throw.
What is JECT?
200
A person walking down the street or crossing the street.
What is a pedestrian?
200
A word that is a sound. Ex: Boom!
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The bring BACK to life AGAIN.
What is revive?
200
A prefix that means "wrong".
What is MIS?
200
A rot that means to carry.
What is PORT?
300
To cut into two pieces.
What is bisect?
300
Comparing two unlike things and using "like" or "as". Ex: The boy was as big as a giant.
What is a simile?
300
Bright colors.
What is VIVID?
300
Five prefixes that mean NOT.
What are UN, IN, IM, DIS, and NON?
300
A root that means hand.
What is MAN or MANU?
400
To THROW OUT because it is broken or no good.
What is reject?
400
Comparing two unlike things and NOT unsing "like" or "as". Ex: Her eyes were two blue crystals.
What is a metaphor?
400
Necessary for life such as water and air.
What is vital?
400
A root that means to look or see.
What is SPEC?
400
A root meaning to cut.
What is SECT?
500
A synonym for eye glasses.
What are SPECTACLES?
500
Giving a nonliving thing a living trait. Ex: The sun smiles of the little girl.
What is personification?
500
To keep on living.
What is survival?
500
A root that means to build.
What is STRUCT?
500
Three roots that mean life?
What is VIT, VIV, and BIO?
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