Types of Words
The opposite of noisy is quiet
Antonym
A story about someone written about someone else
Biography
The order in which the story takes place (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
Sequence
"I" am happy vs. my "eye" hurts - two words that sound the same but are spelled different and mean different things
Homophone
BOOM ! CRASH! WOOSH!
Onomatopoeia
Another word for tired is sleepy
Synonym
Autobiography
What the story is about
Main idea
groups of letters that can be placed before a word to alter its meaning (un-believable)
Prefix
Something that is true (Ms. Hilghman is a teacher)
FACT
It's raining cats and dogs!
Idiom
A fake story about a real event
Realistic Fiction
What the author is writing the story for (persuade, inform, entertain)
Author's Purpose
The base of a word
Root word
Something that you may think (Ms. Hilghman is the best teacher)
Ms. Hilghman is an early bird
Metaphor
A fake story - not real
Fiction
The peak of the story - when the big event occurs
Climax
An ending added to a word to change its meaning
(unbeliev-able)
Two tigers took the train
Alliteration
Ms. Hilghman wakes up early like an early bird!
A real story - not fake
Nonfiction
The end of a story
Conclusion
The ocean waved hello - an object acting like a human
Personification
Snowball (snow+ball) Notebook(note+book) are words that are made of two words
Compound words