Which of these items would you read for entertainment?
A. Road atlas
B. a short story
C. A daily newspaper
What is a short story?
100
This literary device uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.
What is a simile?
100
Add a prefix to the root word "sweet" to make a word that means "partly sweet"
What is "semi"? Semisweet
100
I ate ice cream for breakfast today?
What is "fact".
100
This is an outline found near the front of a book that gives a quick look at the main subjects covered and tells the reader where to find those subjects.
What is the table of contents?
200
Which of these items could teach you how to make something?
A. A cookbook
B. a comic book
D. A telephone book
What is a cookbook?
200
Clink, splash, gush, and splat are examples of this literary device.
What is onomatopoeia ?
200
Add a prefix to the word "count" to change the meaning to "count poorly".
What is "mis"? Miscount
200
Beautiful, funny, boring, and sill are all examples of this type of word.
What are opinion words?
200
This is a network of millions of computers all over the world. If your school library is connected to this, you can research nearly any topic.
What is the Internet?
300
This a guess based on evidence.
What is a prediction?
300
This is used to compare things that are wildly different.
What is a hyperbole?
300
Add a suffix to the word "erase" to make a word that means "able to be erased".
What is "able"? Erasable
300
I went to the grocery store and they had the best ham sandwiches.
What is opinion?
300
Which item would have more information about the famous female pilot Amelia Earhart?
A. A website that sells toy planes.
B. a book titled "Lives of Famous Pilots".
C. A newspaper article about air travel.
D. A magazine called "The World's Oceans"
What is "B" a book called "Lives of Famous Pilots".
400
This genre gives information about real people, places, and ideas.
What is nonfiction?
400
This device attaches human traits and characteristics to inanimate objects or animals.
What is personification?
400
In the word "unharmed" the prefix "un" means this.
What is "not" ? (Not harmed)
400
This can be a book, a website, or a person that you can get information that pertains to a certain topic.
What is:
1. To come and go from stationary houseboats.
2. As small traveling convenient stores.
500
Identify the type of literary device used in the following passage.
Wild winds whipped whirly-twirly white clouds through the Wild West.
What is alliteration?
500
What can you add to make the word "possible" no longer possible or not possible?
What is "im-" ? (Impossible)
500
I took a trip to the moon this weekend. It took six hours and twenty minutes to get there on my way I stopped for a milkshake at the MilkyWay cafe. The trip only cost $10,00.
What is a fact?
500
Please turn to page 112. Using the index on page 112, you can see that information about cartridges can be found on these pages.