Figurative language
Reading
Miscellaneous
Inferences and Plot
Random facts
100
When you compare to unlike things using the words like or as.
What is a simile
100
What is a narrator?
What is a person who is telling the story?
100
A genre in nonfiction which is a story of one's own life.
What is an autobiography
100
Concludes the action and ensures that all important plot lines have been tied.
What is a resolution?
100
Had 4 exhibits at the World's Fair.
What is Walt Disney?
200
The formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
What is onomatopoeia.
200
Define Main Idea
Answer varies
200
A prefix that means life
What is bio
200
A struggle between to opposing forces.
What is a conflict
200
Has hands, but not arms, a face, but no eyes.
What is a clock?
300
Punctuation used in a narrative to indicate speech.
What is quotation marks.
300
Define: Character motivations
What is why a character does something?
300
Books that are about real things, people, events, and places.
What is nonfiction
300
Why something happens.
What is cause?
300
In this essay, you show how two things are alike or different
What is compare and contrast?
400
Giving an object or an animal human traits.
What is personification.
400
What are the four ways that a reader can interpret or find out information about a character. Either through the characters: A__________ T__________ D__________ I___________
What is Actions, Thoughts, Dialogue, Interactions.
400
An essential trait of a biography that helps the reader understand the subject in context to the historical time period and place he or she was born in.
What is setting?
400
The central point of a piece of writing.
What is the main idea?
400
Brings the reader into the story.
What is a hook?
500
Create your own simile
Student answers vary
500
The highest point of interest, the place where ideas are drawn together, an important turning point in a series of actions, or the most forceful event in a story.
What is a climax
500
prefix that means to write
What is graph?
500
The effect of this sentence: The wasteful energy use of many Americans has contributed to global warming.
What is global warming?
500
RACES consists of these things. Provide examples.
What is Restate the question, answer the question, cite, explain or expand, and sum it up.