The girl is astonished, surprised by, when she saw the huge birthday cake.
Type of context clue.
definition
100
Prior Knowledge + What you know =
What is an inference?
100
The package took forever to arrive in the mail.
Hyperbole
100
The benefactor helped the organization by donating $10,000 dollars. What does bene mean?
good
100
Poems are divided into these instead of paragraphs.
What are stanzas?
200
My students were commended and praised for doing such a great job.
Type of context clue.
synonym
200
What is the major topic that can be stated or inferred in a piece of fiction?
main idea
200
The vines hugged the tree all the way to the top.
Personification
200
I will be taking a biology class in middle school, and studying different life forms. What is the meaning of the root word? bio
life
200
This is the name for the way that lines rhyme in stanzas.
What is rhyme scheme?
300
The girl was flabbergasted when she opened the door and saw her favorite singer, Taylor Swift standing there. What type of context clue?
inference
300
This is the lesson being taught in the story. (usually in folktales)
moral
300
Rub someone the wrong way.
Idiom
300
I enclosed the letter in the envelope. Root word: clos
shut
300
This is what it is called if something in a poem is repeated over and over again.
What is repetition?
400
The bombs annihilated the land when they exploded .
What does annihilated mean?
destroyed
400
This type of point of view is when the narrator is a character in the story.
first person
400
The garbage was as stinky as the smell of an angry skunk.
Simile
400
I am going to the dermatologist to have a growth removed from my arm: derm
Skin
400
The rhyme scheme of this poem is:
The car drove down the road, and then ran over a toad. It bumped a little, split down the middle, and started to grow mold.
What is AABBC?
500
Sally's kept her room meticulous , but her sister always seemed to be messy.
Type of context clue.
antonym
500
This point of view would be written like this: Elly stared at Jared, wondering why he was so stubborn. Jared looked back at Elly, wondering why she was so mad.
third person
500
The boy was a lion.
Metaphor
500
We transported the goods to another country. root: trans