Vocab Category 1
In the middle of a range of possible sizes,amounts,etc.
What is Medium?
Something someone will think what will happen in the futureor ahead of time.
What is Prediction?
A children's story about magical and imaginary princesses, talking animals, often includes a happy ending.
What is a Fairy Tale?
A figure of speech in which a thing, idea or animal is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
Under, too little/ ex: Underestimate
What is Under-?
Easy to see or notice; easy for the mind to understand or reconize.
What is Obvious?
An extreme exaggeration used to make a point.
What is Hyperbole?
A accountant of a person's life written by that person.
What is an Autobiography?
The use of words that mimic the sounds they describe.
What is Onomatopeia?
across/ ex: transmit
What is -trans?
An imaginary circle around the middle of Earth, equally distant from the North Pole and teh South Pole.
What is Equator?
The repetion vowel sounds in nearby words.
What is Assonance?
A genre of stories that are made up and include ideas that could not happen in real life, often involving magical or supernatural elements, suh as talking animals.
What is Fantasy?
The wirter's or speaker's attitude tword a subject, character, or audience, and it ia conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail.
What is Tone?
Made of/ ex: golden
What is -en?
A reddish clay that is used for potery and titles
What is Terra-cotta?
A seemingly contradictory statement.Which actually makes sense or contains some truth.
What is PARADOX?
A genre stories that didn't really hapen, but are based on events in history.
What is Historical Fiction?
Is a figure of speech that makes a brief indirect REFERENCE to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political signfigance.
What is an Allusion?
More/ ex: taller.
What is -er?
An officer in ancient Roman army, which originally had one hundred men.
What is centurion?
Directly compares two unrelated things by stating one is the other without 'like' or 'as'.
What is a Metaphor?
An account of someone's life written by another person.
What is Biography?
A play on words. A joke exploiting the difference possible.
What is a Pun?
Is; can be/ ex: affordable, sensible.
What is -able, ible?