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Affixes
Author's Purpose
Figurative Language
Story Structure
Text Structures
100
This is the affix that comes before the root word.
What is prefix?
100
These are the three types of author's purpose.
What is to inform, entertain, and persuade?
100
"She is a whale" is this type of figurative language.
What is metaphor?
100
This is where a story takes place.
What is setting?
100
This text structure shows how two or more things are alike and/or how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
200
This is the affix that comes after the root word.
What is suffix?
200
This type of author's purpose is found in all novels.
What is to entertain?
200
"I could eat a whole cow" is this type of figurative language.
What is a hyperbole?
200
This is what leads up to the climax.
What is rising action?
200
This text structure explains why something happened.
What is cause and effect?
300
This prefix means to study all things having to do with "life."
What is bio-?
300
This type of author's purpose is found in FAQ'S.
What is to inform?
300
"The kitten's fur was as soft as my living room rug" is this type of figurative language.
What is a simile?
300
This disagreement leads to the climax.
What is conflict?
300
This text structure takes a topic, idea, person, place, or thing and describes it by listing its features, characteristics, or examples.
What is descriptive?
400
This prefix means "against."
What is anti-?
400
This type of author's purpose is found in magazine advertisements.
What is to persuade?
400
"The tree wept in the wind" is this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
400
This is when all of the main characters are introduced.
What is exposition?
400
This text structure describes an issue and ways to address it.
What is problem and solution?
500
This suffix means to be "full of" something.
What is -ful?
500
A politician's campaign speech has this type of author's purpose.
What is to persuade?
500
"His qualifications as a math teacher didn't add up" is this type of figurative language.
What is a pun?
500
This is what leads to the resolution.
What is falling action?
500
This text structure tells the steps to follow to do something or make something.
What is sequence?