Affixes
A word placed before a root word to change its meaning. (Example, Pre, Un, Re)
What is a prefix?
Comparing unlike things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
What a piece of writing is mostly about.
What is central idea?
Events in order.
What is chronology?
The pattern in which the last words in lines of poetry rhymes.
What is rhyme?
A word placed after a root word to change its meaning. (Example, -ful, -ness, -less)
What is a suffix?
Comparing unlike things by saying one is like the other, without using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
The moral or lesson that the author wants you to learn and apply to your everyday life.
What is theme?
Text gives information about a problem and one or more solutions.
What is problem and solution?
Does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is free verse?
What prefix is needed,
"We need to __start the game, we did it wrong."
What is re?
Giving human like traits or characteristics to nonhumans.
What is personification?
A paragraph written in response to a reading selection.
What is a summary?
Text talks about similarities and differences between people, places, etc.
What is a limerick?
What does "mistreat" mean?
What is to treat others badly?
An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true.
What is a hyperbole?
Where in the text you found the answer.
What is text evidence?
Text describes an event and the effect that follows.
An unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of 3 unrhymed lines (5,7,5) or 17 syllables in all.
What is a haiku?
What does "joyless" mean?
What is without joy?
A type of word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests a sound that it describes.
what is an onomatopoeia?
The author gives his or her reasons for telling about a topic or person.
What is authors claim?
Text provides details or characteristics of something.
What is description?
The division of lines into groups on a poem.
What is a stanza?