Greek/Latin Roots
What does PED mean?
Foot
What is a simile?
Comparison using Like/As
What is main idea?
The main point of the story.
What are the two main types of genres?
Fiction and Non Fiction
What does Frail/Fract/Frag mean?
Fragile/Break
What does man/manu mean?
Hands
What is a metaphor?
Comparison not using Like/As.
What is theme?
The message or lesson
Tell the difference between fiction and non fiction.
Fiction=Fake
Non Fiction=Not Fake
What does Bio mean?
Life
What does sect mean?
Cut/separate
What is Hyperbole?
What does it mean to summarize a story?
To tell what the entire passage was about in a few sentences.
What are the three main types of Author's Purpose?
Persuade
Inform
Entertain
What does struct mean?
To build
What does port mean?
Carry
What is Alliteration?
Repeating the same sounds.
What does it mean to use context clues?
Using the clues around an unknown word to figure out what the word means.
What is a synonym?
A word that means the same thing.
What does therm mean?
Heat/temperature
What does spec mean?
See/look
What is Personification?
Giving non human objects, human characteristics.
What does it mean to make an inference?
What is an antonym?
A word that means the opposite.
What does graph mean?
To write