This is a type of text that includes fairy tales, legends, short stories, and novels.
What is fiction?
100
"Eat" and "feet", "plan" and "man", "sing" and "ring" are examples of words in poems that do this.
What is rhyme?
100
This is a statement that is always true.
What is a fact?
100
This is the action word in a sentence.
What is a verb?
200
This is what the prefix mis-, as in mistake, means.
What is wrong?
200
This is a type of text that includes textbooks, encyclopedias, newspapers, and biographies.
What is nonfiction?
200
These are words that sound like what they mean (i.e. giggle, click, zoom).
What is onomatopoeia?
200
This is a comparison of two things that does not use "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
200
This is a person, place, or thing.
What is a noun?
300
This is what the suffix less-, as in sleepless, means.
What is without?
300
These are the people in a story.
What are characters?
300
This is something that is repeated over and over again.
What is a pattern?
300
This is what it's called when something happens, then something else happens as a result.
What is cause and effect?
300
This is a word that describes a noun (person, place, or thing).
What is an adjective?
400
These are words that mean the same thing.
What are synonyms?
400
This is the where and when of the story.
What is the setting?
400
A peanut sat on a railroad track,
Its heart was all a-flutter.
Along came a choo-choo train.
Toot! Toot!
It was peanut butter.
This is the onomatopoeia in the poem.
What is "Toot!"?
400
This is what it's called when authors write about events in the order that they happened.
What is sequence?
400
This is a word that describes a verb (action word) or an adjective and typically ends in -ly.
What is an adverb?
500
These are words that sound the same, but have different meanings and spellings.
What are homophones?
500
This is a word for the events taking place at the beginning, middle, and end of a story.
What is the plot?
500
This is the way the lines sound in a poem when you read them. Poems can have this sort of bounce that makes them fun to hear and read.
What is rhythm?
500
This is what a story or passage is mostly about and it helps you understand the passage better.
What is the main idea?
500
This is the adverb in the sentence, "The beautiful horse trotted gracefully across the meadow."