Vocabulary & Word Parts
This word part is added to the beginning of a base word to change its meaning.
What is a prefix?
To give a brief statement of the main points of a story, omitting minor details.
What is to summarize?
A story that is made up or not true.
What is fiction?
A group of words that is missing either a subject or a verb and doesn't express a complete thought.
What is a sentence fragment?
These are used to set off the exact words someone is speaking.
What are quotation marks?
A word that has the same or a similar meaning as another word.
What is a synonym?
Using "clues" from the text plus what you already know to make a logical guess.
What is an inference?
This genre involves magic, mythical creatures, and worlds that don't exist in reality.
What is fantasy?
A sentence made up of two independent clauses joined by a comma and a conjunction (like "and" or "but").
What is a compound sentence?
This punctuation mark is used to separate items in a list.
What is a comma?
This is the dictionary definition of a word, as opposed to its emotional "connotation."
What is denotation?
This strategy involves looking at the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning.
What are context clues?
Short stories that often feature animals as characters and end with a moral or lesson.
What are fables?
This occurs when two complete sentences are joined together without proper punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
Use this mark to join two independent clauses that are closely related without using a conjunction.
What is a semicolon?
A word that means the opposite of another word.
What is an antonym?
When you look at two things to find similarities and differences.
What is compare and contrast?
A story written about a person's life, written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
What is an interrogative sentence?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings, like "there," "their," and "they’re."
What are homophones?
The Greek root "bio" means this in English.
What is life?
The difference between what a character thinks is happening and what the audience knows is happening.
What is dramatic irony?
Writing that is intended to convince the reader to believe or do something.
What is persuasive (or argumentative) writing?
This type of sentence gives a command or makes a request, like "Close the door."
What is an imperative sentence?
This punctuation mark is used to introduce a list or to follow a formal greeting in a letter.
What is a colon?