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Parts of Language
Strategies for Answering Questions
Figurative Language
Types of Writing
Odds and Ends
100
The opposite of a word.
What is an antonym?
100
When you do not understand a word while reading, you can look at the words around it for these.
What are context clues?
100
"Betty's baby blues" is an example of this literary device.
What is alliteration?
100
Fiction
What is any story that is a product of imagination and not fact?
100
To entertain, persuade or inform
What is the author's purpose?
200
In the word resettlement, re is an example of this.
What is a prefix?
200
4 square, venn diagram, and web
What are examples of graphic organizers?
200
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
200
A book about plants in North America is an example of this category of writing.
What is nonfiction?
200
Making an assumption is the same as making this.
What is a generalization?
300
Happy and glad, mean and cruel, sunny and bright.
What are examples of synonyms?
300
You need these after the topic sentence when writing a paragraph.
What are supporting details?
300
This example of onomatopoeia can be heard around a hive.
What is "buzz"?
300
The moral of this fable is "Slow and steady wins the race".
What is The Tortoise and the Hare?
300
The speaker of the story.
Who is the narrator?
400
How would a homophone letter to a buck or whitetail start?
What is "Dear deer,"
400
I think that Hannah will return safely to her family in "The Devil's Arthimetic".
What is a prediction?
400
A hyperbole.
What is an exaggeration?
400
An account of a person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
400
"Wow, you look great!" said Paul. "Thanks," replied Mary. "You're welcome," Paul answered.
What is an example of dialogue?
500
The word to which suffixes and prefixes are added.
What is a rootword?
500
Compare/Contrast.
What is showing the similarities and differences between two things?
500
"This test will be a piece of cake" is an example of this.
What is an idiom?
500
An autobiography.
What is an account of a person's life written by themselves?
500
Voice.
What is the author's style?