Greek & Latin Roots
This Greek root word means to write or record.
What is graph?
What is a vowel team?
This word part can have prefixes or suffixes added to it, or it can stand alone as a word by itself.
What is a base word?
"He had to eat. He was weak with it again, down with the hunger, and he had to eat." - This quote is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is hyperbole?
This Prefix means between, among.
What is inter?
This Latin root means to hear.
What is aud?
The VCe syllable pattern is also known as this.
What is a Final E syllable?
This type of affix is added to the beggining of a word.
I have a friend, he thought-I have a friend now. A hungry friend, but a good one. I have a friend named fire. "Hello, fire ... " This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
What is a suffix?
This Latin root means to carry.
What is port?
This type of syllable contains a short vowel sound and will end with a consonant.
What is a closed syllable?
This word part does not have meaning until an affix is added to the begging or end of the word.
What is a root?
It was so precious to him, so close and sweet a thing, the yellow and red flames brightening the dark interior of the shelter, the happy crackle of the dry wood as it burned, that he could not leave it. This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
What two suffixes mean a person who & turn a word into a noun.
What is er & or?
Bene means this in Latin.
What is good?
The final syllable in the word Calendar contains this type of syllable.
What is a R-Controlled syllable.
This is a word used to describe a verb.
What is an adverb?
When he held the jacket up and looked beneath it, he saw a stream of red liquid. He put a finger in it and found it to be sweet and tangy, like pop without the fizz, and he grinned and lay back on the sand, holding the bag up over his face and letting the seepage drip into his mouth. This passage is an example of this type of tone/mood.
What is playful & curious?
This Prefix means too much or too many.
What is over?
This is the Greek Root for rule of Government.
What is cracy?
The final syllable in the word bubble contains this type of syllable.
What is Final Stable Syllable?
This word will take the place of a noun.
What is a pronoun?
He was dirty and starving and bitten and hurt and lonely and ugly and afraid and so completely miserable that it was like being in a pit, a dark, deep pit with no way out. This passage creates this type of tone.
What is sad, dark, or depressed?
This prefix can mean more or better than, and also away.
What is out?
This is the Greek root for to build.
What is struct?
This is what you should do when you see two consonants next to each other in a multisyllabic word.
What is separate them? (Separate the twins)
This shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun with other words in the sentence.
What is a preposition?
On page 37 - 38, Brian refers to the mosquitoes as vampires. This is an example of this type of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
This suffix means full of having, and changes a word into an adjective.
What is ous?