Figurative language term that means to exaggerate.
What is hyperbole?
100
An author's purpose for writing.
What is to entertain, persuade, or inform?
100
What a selection is mostly about.
What is the main idea?
100
The narrator participates in the action.
What is first person point of view?
100
Important;major;noteworthy
What is significant?
200
The meaning of TBD.
What is to be determined?
200
Making a logical guess about what will happen next in a story.
What is making a prediction?
200
Briar Middle School is too small.
What is an opinion?
200
The main problem in the story.
What is plot?
200
To give a reason for something; to make something easy to understand.
What is to explain?
300
The prefix in the word antiparticle.
What is anti?
300
What you already know.
What is prior knowledge?
300
Briar Middle School is located at 3700 South Avenue.
What is a fact?
300
Information such as time and place.
What is setting?
300
To join into one; to unite; to merge
What is combine?
400
Mary wanted her friend Allison to be discreet. She wanted to surprise her family with her dancing skills.
The meaning of the word discreet in this sentence is-
secret, mean, anticipation, or expressive
What is secret?
400
To retell only the main points of a selection.
What is summarization?
400
Patrick fell and broke his ankle. He did not use crutches long enough now he is having back problems. Describe the relationship.
What is cause and effect?
400
The message or insight into life.
What is theme.
400
To sort, categorize, classify, or compare characteristics.
What is to distinguish?
500
She thought about it for a second and then wondered if the few articles of overpriced clothes at the boutique might be preferable to the piles of cheap clothes she would find at the bazaar.
The meaning of the word bazaar in this sentence.
What is market?
500
All events in the story are in order according to when they happened.