FALL WOW WORDS
FIGURATURE LANGUAGE
VOCABULARY IN QUESTIONS
ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE
WINTER WOW WORDS
100
To make something clear or easy to understand either verbally or through writing.

What is explain?

100

A comparison that includes the words like or as.

What is simile?

100
A small portion of the text, article or story.

What is excerpt?

100

Where and when the actions (story) takes place.

What is setting?

100

To grow and change into a more advanced, larger, or stronger form.

What is develop?

200

The reason for which something exists or is done, made, or used.

What is purpose?
200

A comparison that does not include the words like or as.

What is metaphor?
200

To support an idea, claim, or opinion using information (evidence) from the text.

What is cite?
200

The events that occur in a story.

What is plot?

200

To find how things are the same or different. 

What is compare and contrast?

300

To do or arrange something according to a particular system.

What is organize?

300

A word whose sound suggests its meaning.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

Things that are not included in the main text; ie. charts, graphs, maps, and sidebar.

What is text feature?

300

Use of clues to suggest something that is going to happen.

What is foreshadowing?

300

To decide what will happen or come to a conclusion about something.

What is determine?

400

To bring or come to an end (finish). 

What is conclude?

400

An expression whose meaning is different from the meaning is different from the meaning of its individual words.

What is an Idiom?

400

To make a brief statement about the text, that includes the important points.

What is summarize?

400

The feeling a reader gets from a story. 

What is mood?

400

The following of one thing after another.

What is sequence?

500

A feature or quality belonging to a person, place, or thing.

What is characteristics?
500

The act of giving human qualities to animals or inanimate objects.

What is personification?
500

A conclusion or understanding not directly stated by the author. Taking your knowledge and text information to make a conclusion.

What is inference (infer)?

500

The central idea or lesson about life that an author conveys. (lesson or moral learned)

What is theme?

500

To carefully review and confirm accuracy, truthfulness or validity of information, claims data; fact checking.

What is verify?