Spelling: Related Words
A form of writing that is poetic.
What is a poem?
Me, _______, and I
What is "myself"?
Arrogant, pretentious character in Deep Sea Danger who thinks he is better than the crew members.
Who is The Professor?
A battery is an example of this.
Which of these words is misspelled? How do you spell it correctly?
repeat
combination
critisize
academic
criticize
(or criticise if you're British)
What is "combination"?
It's every man for _________!
What is himself?
Pilot of the vessel. She is brave and adventurous.
Who is Isabel?
Scientist and inventor who perfected the electric lightbulb.
Who is Thomas Alva Edison?
A word that has multiple meanings.
What is a multiple-meaning word?
What a critic does.
What is criticize?
A type of pronoun that doesn't refer to specific words, like "someone" or "nobody".
What is an indefinite pronoun?
What is person vs. nature?
or
person vs. person (Marcus & the Professor)?
Three things you need for a lightbulb to light up in a circuit.
What are a power/energy source, a complete pathway, and the correct contact points?
Which of these is not a real reflexive pronoun?
itself
yourself
yourselves
theirselves
theirselves
If my train leaves the station at 2pm, its _________ time is 2pm.
What is "departure"?
A type of pronoun that reflects the action of the verb back upon the subject, like "herself".
What is a reflexive pronoun?
Thinking of Freytag's Pyramid, the part of the story where Marcus guides the crew to use a robotic arm to defeat the giant squid.
What are the base contact point and the casing contact point?
A poem with 14 lines of 10 syllables each and a rhyming pattern of ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.
What is a sonnet?
Something academic is related to the...
What is "academy"?
The word ending that indicates a word is a plural reflexive pronoun.
What is -selves?
A potential theme of the story; related to our journal prompt for this week.
What is "teamwork"?
The evidence that a circuit with wires, a motor, a switch, and a D-cell is working.
What is motion? (What is motion and sound?)
"Several", "many", and "others" are all examples of this type of word.
What is a plural indefinite pronoun?