6th Grade Vocabulary
what term is a color but also used to describe a sad person.
what is blue?
What kind of punctuation do you need for dialogue?
" " Quotation Marks
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers is an example of...
What is alliteration
Correct the spelling...
Febuary
February
What were the names of Kenny Watson's siblings in "The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963"
Byron and Joey
define simile
What is comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'
"Ouch! "Boom!" "Pow!" are all examples of what?
onomatopoeia
WHAT IS A METAPHOR
direct comparison of things without using like or as
correct the spelling...
persavere
persevere
What is the complete subject of this sentence:
My sister and I took turns looking out the window.
My sister and I
what is a homophone
What is a word that is pronounced like another word but has different meaning, spelling, or origin.
What is the first sentence of a paragraph called?
What is a topic sentence?
what point of view would an author use to talk directly to the audience
What is second person point of view
fix the error...
I told them to wash there hands.
their
Give a sentence with personification being correctly used
*varies*
what is a synonym for persuade
What is any word that means getting someone to do something
Fix the sentence...
Me and Ericka are going to canada next weekend.
Canada (proper nouns are capitalized)
Ericka and I are going to Canada next weekend.
Fix the error...
The water spilling over was the affect of the children horse-playing.
effect
What is the term for words such as radar, kayak, and racecar?
They are palindromes
define definite
What is having defined limits or certainty?
what does FANBOYS stand for
What is For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So
What is the correct spelling of exaust?
exhaust
"on the table", or "under the mistletoe" are examples of what part of speech
prepositional phrase