These are made-up stories that usually include helpless princesses, daring knights, magic, and happily-ever-after endings.
What are fairy tales?
100
These are statements that can be proved.
What are facts?
100
This is the rhyme scheme for the following stanza:
My bed is like a little boat;
Nurse helps me in when I embark;
She girds me in my sailor's coat
And starts me in the dark.
What is ABAB?
100
This is the most important point in a reading passage.
What is the main idea?
100
This is a preposition that means "leaving out" or "other than."
What is except?
200
These are the stories that are passed down for generations by oral storytelling.
What is traditional literature?
200
This refers to the sentence (usually found in the first paragraph) that presents the writer’s argument to the reader.
What is the thesis statement?
200
This is a word whose sound suggests its meaning.
What is an onomatopoeia?
200
This is taking a larger selection of text and reducing it
to only the important details (leaving out the unimportant details).
What is summarizing?
200
This is a noun that means "a time from the past."
What is yore?
300
The basis for this genre of story comes from traditional literature?
What is fantasy?
300
In this stage of the writing process, the writer chooses a topic, may do some research, uses thinking maps, and creates an outline.
What is prewriting?
300
This is the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words.
What is rhyme?
300
The hero or main character in the story.
What is the protagonist?
300
This is a contraction meaning "they are."
What is they're?
400
These types of stories tell us exaggerated stories about characters who were actual people from the 1800s.
What are tall tales?
400
The purpose of this type of writing is to influence the reader to do something or to think a certain way.
What is persuasive writing?
400
This is an example of this type of sound device.
Down into the dim depths walked the explorers.
What is alliteration?
400
This is something not directly stated in the reading passage that you must use background knowledge plus text clues to figure out.
What is an inference?
400
This is the possessive form of them.
What is their?
500
These kinds of stories include other galaxies, time travel, and advanced technology.
What is science fiction?
500
An example of this type of rhetorical device is "Do I really need to remind you what the homework is again?"
What is a rhetorical question?
500
This is an example of this type of figurative language.
If I've told you once, I've told you a million times.
What is a hyperbole?
500
This is known as reading between the lines.
What is inferencing?
500
This is a noun that means "a firm belief that someone has about something" or "a rule about the way that something works.”