ISAT POWER VERBS
MORE ISAT POWER VERBS
WORD POWER
HINTS FOR BETTER READING
LITERARY DEVICES
100
This ISAT Power Verb means to outline or to follow the path.
What is Trace?
100
This ISAT Power Verb tells about the details (See, Hear, Smell, Taste, Touch).
What is Describe?
100
A word that is made up of two smaller words.
What is a compound word?
100
What the passage or story is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
100
Where and when the story takes place.
What is setting?
200
This ISAT Power Verb means to make a guess and tell why.
What is predict?
200
This ISAT Power Verb means to prove it and give lots of examples to back it up.
What is Support?
200
Words that have almost the same meaning.
What are synonyms?
200
To inform, persuade, entertain, or describe are all examples of the author's __________________.
What is purpose?
200
The repeating of a beginning sound like "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
300
This ISAT Power Verb means to find the hidden meaning or to read between the lines.
What is Infer or make an inference?
300
This ISAT Power Verb means to tell the main idea and the most important details.
What is Summarize?
300
Words that have opposite meanings.
What are antonyms?
300
Writing that goes with a picture or drawing.
What is a caption?
300
Words that actually sound like the noises they make like "boom"
What is onomatopoeia?
400
This ISAT Power Verb means to tell the good and the bad or judge it.
What is Evaluate?
400
These 2 ISAT Power Verbs mean to tell the ways something or someone is different and the same.
What is Compare and Contrast?
400
Words that sound alike but have different meanings.
What are homophones?
400
These tell more about the main idea in a passage or story.
What are supporting details?
400
A phrase comparing two things using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
500
This ISAT Power Verb means to create an idea and put it together.
What is Formulate?
500
This ISAT Power Verb means to break it down into parts and tell about the parts.
What is Analyze?
500
Something that is true and proven is a ____________. Your feelings or how someone feels about a particular topic is an ______________________.
What is a fact and an opinion?
500
Fiction, non-fiction, folktale, fable, and legend are all examples of different __________________ of stories.
What are genres?
500
A phrase comparing two things not using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?