Vocabulary Pairs
Parts of a Book
Telling a Story
Parts of an Essay
Potpourri
100
With fact and opinion, this is the word that means something that can be measured or proved.
What is a fact?
100
This is what is listed on the title page besides the name of the book's author.
What is the title of the book?
100
This is who the main character is in "Little Red Riding Hood."
Who is Little Red Riding Hood?
100
This the name for the last paragraph in an essay.
What is the conclusion?
100
This is what you do to the titles of books besides capitalize the important words in them.
What is underline them or put them in italics?
200
With compare and contrast, this is the word that means to explain how two topics are different from each other.
What is contrast?
200
This is the place in the book where you would find the names and pages of each chapter or story in the book.
What is the table of contents?
200
This is the setting of "Little Red Riding Hood."
What is either the forest or Grandmother's house?
200
This is what is listed in the first paragraph and what is supported by many supporting details in the rest of the essay?
What is the main idea of the essay?
200
This is what writing using "chronological order" means.
What is writing events in the order of what happened first and continuing through what happened last?
300
With prefix and suffix, this is where you would find the prefix.
What is at the front of a word?
300
On the copyright page, this year is given that shows when the book was...
What is published?
300
This is the plot of "Little Red Riding Hood."
What is a little girl ignores her mother's warning, takes a shortcut through the forest and talks to a wolf, and ends up at her grandmother's house where a wolf has taken Grandma's place?
300
This is a word like "first" or "finally" that helps the paragraphs read smoothly.
What is a transition?
300
This is a word similar to a main idea but more about what message an author wants you to learn from a story.
What is the theme?
400
With synonym and antonym this is the meaning of a synonym.
What is a word that means the same or almost the same as another word?
400
This is the page that lists all the other books the nonfiction book's author read to do research for his/her writing.
What is the bibliography?
400
This is the problem of "Little Red Riding Hood."
What is that the wolf has removed Grandma and is threatening Little Red Riding Hood?
400
This is where you would look for the main idea of any essay you read on the CST.
What is in the title, in the introduction, in the conclusion, and in the middle of the essay?
400
This is what the most exciting part of a story is called, which happens right before the resolution.
What is the climax?
500
This is the word for the reason behind an effect.
What is the cause?
500
This is what you would find in a book's appendix.
What is any extra information, such as extra tables or more detailed examples of something described in the book?
500
This is the the solution of "Little Red Riding Hood."
What is the woodsman kills the wolf?
500
This is the name for the most important sentence in the introductory paragraph, the one that tells the main idea for that paragraph.
What is the topic sentence?
500
This what the word "derived" means in the sentence "The name of the Rio Grande in Texas derived from the Spanish words for Big River.
What is came from?