Affixes, Prefixes & Suffixes
Known as base words or stems
What is root word?
Weather patterns could be described that explain why a big snowstorm occurred.
What is cause and effect?
The most important point an author makes about a topic.
What is the main/central idea?
A way of describing something by saying it's like something else by using words 'like' or 'as'
What is a simile?
The glass fell off the table with a crash.
a loud noise or a collision, a wreak
What is a loud noise?
These items change the meaning of a word
What is an Affix?
A passage about ancient Greece may explain how the Spartan women were different from the Athenian women.
What is compare and contrast?
Tells more information about the topic and support the central/main idea.
What is supporting detail?
When a non-living something is described as if it's a person
What is personification?
Flour and flower are examples
What is a homophone?
Added to beginning of a root word to modify its meaning.
What is a prefix?
A book about the American revolution might list the events leading to the war.
What is order/sequence?
Often found at the beginning or end of the paragraph
What is topic sentence?
Describing something by saying that it is something else
What is a metphor?
Two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or spelling.
What are homophones?
Added to the end of a word to change its meaning
What is a suffix?
Your car won't start so you check the battery.
What is problem and solution?
The story takes place in the desert of Egypt.
What is the setting of the story?
Known as exaggeration when an unrealistic comparison is made for effect
What is a hyperbole?
Words that have the same spelling or pronunciation but completely different meanings and functions.
What are homonyms?
What is pre?
A book may tell all about whales
What is description?
A series of events that make up a story
What is plot?
When two or more words begin with the same sound
What is an alliteration?
Words that are spelled the same but are pronounced differently and have different meanings.
What are heteronym?