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Parts of a Book
Types of Books
Literary Elements
All About Words
About Writing
100
a listing of the sections, or chapters, in a book
What is the Table of Contents?
100
a book that gives the correct spelling, pronunciation, and the meanings of words.
What is a dictionary?
100
a creative way of expressing ideas, including the use of similes, metaphors, and personification.
What is figurative language?
100
a set of letters added to the beginning or end of a word to form a new word.
What is affix?
100
a category of writing, such as fiction and nonfiction
What is genre?
200
a book or set of books giving general information about a variety of topics
What is an encyclopedia?
200
an online dictionary
What is an electronic dictionary?
200
exaggeration or over statement
What is hyperbole?
200
an affix added to the end of a word.
What is a suffix?
200
Where and when the story takes place
What is setting?
300
alphabetical list of key words and terms in a book, with their meanings.
What is the glossary?
300
a book that lists synonyms and antonyms of words
What is a thesaurus?
300
an expression whose meaning cannot be taken literally
What is an idiom?
300
an affix added to the beginning of a word.
What is a prefix?
300
a person or animal in the story
What is a character?
400
an alphabetical listing of subjects in the text along with their page numbers
What is the index?
400
a type of writing that is made up, such as stories and poems
What is fiction?
400
describing nonhuman objects in human terms
What is personification?
400
a base word that is used to make a larger word
What is a root word?
400
the set of events that make up the story
What is the plot?
500
A title at the top of a page or section
What is the heading?
500
type of writing that is factual, based on real people and real events.
What is nonfiction?
500
a contrast between what is expected to happen and what happens.
What is irony?
500
the origin and history of a word.
What is etymology?
500
the perspective, or position from which a story is told.
What is point of view?