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Word Nerd
Figur(ative) This
Fact, Not Fiction
Mixed Bag
100
The people or animals involved in a story. They have traits that describe their personality.
What is characters?
100
A word with an opposite meaning to another word.
What is an antonym?
100
A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
100
Writing that gives us information about real people, real places, real things, and real events.
What is non-fiction?
100
Something that is true about a subject and can be tested or proven.
What is a fact?
200
Where and when a story takes place.
What is setting?
200
A word with the same or nearly the same meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?
200
A comparison of two things without using the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor?
200
A list of chapter headings in a book, along with the page number where each chapter begins.
What is the table of contents?
200
Something that describes someone's thoughts, feelings, and beliefs on a topic.
What is an opinion?
300
What happens in the story or the events of the story.
What is plot?
300
A part of a word that is added before a root word, to make a new word.
What is a prefix?
300
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
300
Tells the main idea of each chapter or section of a piece of informational text.
What is a heading?
300
To describe the similarities between two things.
What is compare?
400
What the writing is about.
What is the main idea?
400
A part of a word that is added to the end of a root word, to make a new word.
What is a suffix?
400
A group of words whose meaning cannot be predicted from the meanings of the actual, individual words.
What is an idiom?
400
A sentence that describes or identifies an illustration or photograph.
What is a caption?
400
To describe the differences between two things.
What is contrast?
500
The main message or lesson that the author wants to share with the reader or wants the reader to consider.
What is the theme?
500
A word made by combining two smaller words.
What is a compound word?
500
The repetition of the beginning sounds of words.
What is alliteration?
500
A heading for a sub-topic underneath a heading.
What is a subheading or subtitle?
500
The result of an action that makes something else happen.
What is an effect?