Literary Vocab
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
The answer to a multiplication problem.
What is the product?
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
A system of government where power is held by the people.
What is democracy?
A guess based on evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
The central message or lesson in a story.
What is the theme?
A part of a whole expressed as a number between 0 and 1.
What is a fraction?
The process by which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
An economic system based on private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
To explain or make something clear.
What is clarify?
A struggle between opposing forces in a story.
What is a conflict?
A number that is the square of an integer.
What is a perfect square?
A characteristic that can be observed or measured without changing the substance.
What is a physical property?
The division of power between a central government and regional governments.
What is federalism?
The order in which events happen.
What is sequence?
The time and place in which a story occurs.
What is the setting?
A statement that two expressions are equal.
What is an equation?
The variable in an experiment that is changed or controlled.
What is the independent variable?
A change or addition to a constitution or law.
What is an amendment?
To give support or proof to an argument or statement.
What is evidence?
A figure of speech that gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
The longest side of a right triangle.
What is the hypotenuse?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
The exchange of goods and ideas between Europe and the Americas following Columbus's voyages.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
To examine closely in order to understand or explain something.
What is analyze?