"The magnitude of the storm was completely unexpected." What does magnitude mean?
What is great size?
100
This is a piece of cake!
What is an idiom?
100
softly
quietly
burbling along
a tiny thread of water
slips through the woods
rushing
splashing
swirling with speed
it joins with its sisters
like fingers to a hand
What is personification and simile?
100
The BEST source of information about Billie Holliday, the jazz singer
What is a biography or autobiography?
100
has characters that are not real but a setting that from history
What is historical fiction?
200
The word unify means the opposite of divide. What does unify mean?
What is divide?
200
I've been telling you forever that you need to save money.
What is hyperbole?
200
poetry that is free from fixed patterns of rhyme or rhythm
What is free verse?
200
Famous Count music
singer Count band
jazz bandleader
Count Basie jazz
the BEST search words for information about Count Basie
What is Count Basie jazz?
200
A short story with a moral at the end
What is a fable?
300
The rambunctious children were very noisy and undisciplined.
Noisy and undisciplined are ____________ for the word rambunctious.
What is context clues?
300
She is under the weather.
What is euphemism?
300
a poem that expresses feelings
What is a lyric poem?
300
The most likely place to find a passage about cherry blossoms in Washington, DC, in spring
a dictionary
a magazine article
a science notebook
an almanac
What is a magazine article?
300
Characters who are real people and settings that are real places
What is nonfiction?
400
Recitalists, like singers, dancers, and actors, need adequate rehearsal time.
The part between the commas: ________________
What is an appositive?
400
Hold your horses, Son!
What is an idiom?
400
a poem that tells a story
What is a narrative poem?
400
No information there about cherry trees
a science textbook
a thesaurus
an encyclopedia
an almanac
What is a thesaurus?
400
I. Early bloomers
II. Middle season bloomers
A. triploids
B. diploids
III. Late bloomers
What is an outline?
500
Ben stood at the pinnacle of the mountain. He had climbed to this highest point so he could survey the fire's devastation to the valley below.
The context clues for pinnacle
What is "this highest point"?
500
deafening silence
freezer burn
bittersweet
What is an oxymoron?
500
A
B
B
A
C
C
What is a rhyme scheme?
500
BEST information about westward migration of settlers
a dictionary
a history textbook
an almanac
a SC website
What is a history textbook?
500
The point after the climax where loose end are tied up