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READING
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE & VOCABULARY
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RANDOM
100

What do we call the most important idea in a story or text?



  • A: What is the main idea (or central idea)?
100

"The stars danced in the sky." What type of figurative language is this?


  • A: What is personification (giving human qualities to non-human things)?


100

What is the first step in the writing process?

A: What is prewriting (or planning/brainstorming)?


100

What is a noun?


A: What is a word that names a person, place, or thing?


100

What is the difference between the author's purpose and the author's tone?


  • BONUS 200
  • A: What is that purpose is WHY the author wrote it (to inform, entertain, persuade), and tone is HOW the author feels about the subject?
200

When you tell what happened in a story in your own words, you are doing this.


  • A: What is summarizing?
200

 "She was as quiet as a mouse." This is an example of what?



  • A: What is a simile?


200

When you write a paragraph, what should your first sentence do?


A: What is introduce the main idea (or topic sentence)?


200

 In the sentence "She runs fast," what is the verb?


A: What is "runs"?


200

When a character changes or learns something important during a story, this is called ___.


BONUS 400

A: What is character development (or character change)?

300

This is information that the author directly tells you in the text.


  • A: What is a fact (or textual evidence)?
300

A word that means almost the same thing as another word is called a ___.


A: What is a synonym?


300

This type of writing tells a story about something that happened.

A: What is narrative writing?


300

What punctuation mark comes at the end of a question?

A: What is a question mark?

300

A word that imitates the sound it represents, like "buzz" or "hiss," is called a ___.


BONUS 600

  • A: What is onomatopoeia?
400

What do we call it when a reader uses clues from the text to figure out something the author didn't say directly?

BONUS: 800 POINTS

  • A: What is making an inference?
400

 What is the opposite of a synonym?


A: What is an antonym?

400

What should you do after you finish writing your first draft?


A: What is revise and edit (or proofread)?


400

What is a phrase? 

a small team of words that work together to add meaning to a sentence but cannot stand alone as a complete sentence

400

When a writer uses the same beginning sound in words close together, like "Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers," this is called ___.


BONUS 800

  • A: What is alliteration?
500

The feeling or mood that a story creates for the reader is called this.

  • A: What is the tone (or atmosphere)?
500

Name of Ms. Costa's two cats

Millie and Benjamin

500

Q14: When you use someone else's words in your writing, you must give them credit. This is called ___.


A: What is citing your source?

500

Identify the adverb. My best friend sang beautifully in the school choir. 

beautifully 

500

 This type of character stays the same throughout the story and doesn't change or learn anything new.


BONUS 1,000

  • A: What is a static character (or flat character)?