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Affixes
FCAT Vocab
Academic Vocab
Text Structures
Figurative Language
100
This prefix means color
what is chrome?
100
To show how two things are different.
What is contrast?
100
The act or skill of causing someone to do or believe something.
What is persuasion?
100
This text structure sets up a problem and gives a solution.
What is problem/solution?
100
comparing two unlike things using like or as
What is simile?
200
This prefix means before.
What is pre?
200
To show haw two things are alike?
What is compare?
200
Fill in the blank. ________ refers to the various means or channels of mass communication. For example internet, radio, television, and magazines.
What is media?
200
Gives information in the order it happened.
What is chronological order?
200
extreme exaggeration used for emphasis, often used for comic effect.
What is hyperbole?
300
Fill in the blank with the correct suffix. I was so excited to see Vin Diesel I asked for his auto___.
What is graph?
300
To make clear
What is clarify?
300
This term refers to any for m of communication (print, video, sound) that businesses and organizations use to try to convince people to buy their services.
What is advertising?
300
This text structure uses a venn diagram.
What is compare and contrast?
300
a kind of metaphor that gives objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.
What is personification?
400
This affix means color. Give an example of a word with this affix.
What is chrome?
400
To discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a given text.
What is assess?
400
This is a technique that advertisers use to make it seem everyone is buying this product so you should buy it too.
What is bandwagon?
400
Since, because of , due to , as a result of, consequently. These words are used in this text structure.
What is cause and effect?
400
Karl is wider than the planets.
What is a hyperbole?
500
Identify and give the meaning for at least two affixes. Thermonuclear astrophysics
What is heat, center, star, of or pertaining to nature?
500
To evaluate. To discuss its good and bad points.
What is critique?
500
This is a persuasive technique that uses celebrities and actors to urge consumers to buy a product.
What is a testimonial?
500
Choose problem/solution, description, or cause effect.)As a result of the Law of April 6, 1830, issues of states' rights, the Battle of Gonzales, and the colonists feeling their rights as individuals were infringed upon, Mexico and the Texas colonists engaged in a revolution that changed the course of history.
What is cause/effect?
500
[choose the literary device (i.e. simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification) for each of the sentences] He is dumber than a box of rocks. The test mocked and laughed at me.
What is hyperbole and personification.