What is the literal meaning or dictionary meaning of a word?
100
Which of the following words shows a likeness or similarity between characters or events in a story: just as, but, unlike, on the other hand?
What is just as?
100
In a novel you are not likely to find a non-fiction article. True or False
What is true?
100
Which part of the dictionary entry tells you how to pronounce ambivalence?
am·biv·a·lence (am-ˈbi-və-lən(t)s) noun. simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings.
What is (am-ˈbi-və-lən(t)s)?
200
The final sound is the same in all of the following words: soldier, sugar, error, labor. True or False
What is true?
200
Which of the following words is NOT a common signal that an author is stating an opinion?
I think
The best
I feel
Without a doubt
What is without a doubt?
200
What does the prefix dis- mean in the word disconnected?
What is not?
200
What is the genre that gives facts and other true information about a specific person's life and the time in which he/she lived BUT is written by someone or may or may not have personally known them?
What is biography?
200
What genre is a word of fiction in which made-up characters take place in historical events?
What is historical fiction?
300
Which of the following words follows the V/V pattern (There is a syllable break between the vowels)?
season, mislead, hoarse, video
What is video?
300
Medicine is to remedy as treatment is to __________.
What is cure?
300
What is a byline?
What is the author's name & the magazine or newspaper for which he/she writes for?
300
Define realistic fiction.
What is a made-up story that could possibly happen.
300
What is the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in a line of poetry?
What is meter?
400
Where do you divide the majority of words that follow the V/CV pattern?
What is usually it's divided between the first vowel and the consonant, and the first vowel has a long sound?
400
Describe a "think and search" question.
What is looking for information in more than one place in the passage?
400
The headline of a newspaper article tells what?
What is the title of the article?
400
What genre is defined as a story of fictional events that are usually set in the future and are based on science or technology?
What is science fiction?
400
Give an example of alliteration.
Answers will vary.
500
Does the word curtsy follow the VCC / CV pattern?
What is yes?
500
Which word is in the same word family as generation?
General, rational, radio, generate
What is generate?
500
Which of the following is the connotation of the word valuable?
popular, misled, important, famous
What is important?
500
True or False
The newspaper article genre uses a narrative organizational pattern for text.
What is false?
500
Describe narrative poetry.
What is a long poem that tells about an event or story from start to finish and may contain literary elements such as meter, rhythm, and alliteration.