ELA
A word meaning the opposite of another word is called this.
What is an antonym?
This country is famously shaped like a boot.
What is Italy?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This is the name for the main character in a story.
What is the protagonist?
He was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This comparison uses the words “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
This imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This is the fastest land animal.
What is a cheetah?
This tells where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
This famous bell is located in Philadelphia.
What is the Liberty Bell?
This gives human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas.
What is personification?
The Sahara Desert is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
Our solar system is located in this galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
This is the central lesson or message of a story.
What is the theme?
This document begins with the words “We the People.”
What is the United States Constitution?
This is the main problem or struggle in a story.
What is the conflict?
This river was essential to the growth of ancient Egyptian civilization.
What is the Nile River?
This is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
This is the most intense or important turning point in a story.
What is the climax?
This war was fought between the northern and southern regions of the United States.
What is the Civil War?
A hint about something that will happen later in a story is called this.
What is foreshadowing?
This famous trade route once connected China with Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This metal is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
This occurs when the audience knows something that a character does not.
What is dramatic irony?
This amendment gave women the right to vote throughout the United States.
What is the Nineteenth Amendment?