Vocabulary
The purpose of an author when they give you lots of facts?
What is to inform?
The letters you add to the beginning of a word to change its meaning?
What is a prefix?
A story that is true and real.
What is nonfiction?
Using clues to find out the meaning of a word that you don't know?
What is a context clue?
Comparing two things using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
The exact words someone says.
What is dialogue?
A place where you find the chapter titles and page numbers in a book.
What is table of contents?
Something that can be proven?
What is a fact?
Words without prefixes and suffixes?
What is a root word?
A story that is made up by an author.
What is fiction?
Two words that mean the same or almost the same thing.
What is a synonym?
Giving objects or things human qualities.
What is personification?
The genre that is considered a performance.
What is drama?
Where you look in a textbook to find the definition of a word.
What is a glossary?
What a story is mostly about?
What a is the main idea?
Word parts that include: ab-, struct-, vis-, spec.
What is a Greek or Latin root?
To tell the most important events in a story.
What is summarize?
Two words that mean the opposite.
What is an antonym?
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
A person telling the story.
What is a narrator?
Shows you what the real thing looks like.
What is a photograph?
A lesson learned in a story?
What is theme?
The letters that you add to the end of a word to change its meaning.
What is a suffix?
The type of text organization that puts details in the order in which they happen.
What is sequence?
Words that sound the same but have different meanings.
What is a homophone?
Using 3 or more words in a line with the same beginning sound.
What is alliteration?
Parts that people play in drama.
What is a cast?
Shows you places in the world.
What is a map?
The when and where of a story.
What is setting?
Adding a letter to make it mean more than one.
What is the letter "s"?
Text organization that tells about an issue and then resolves the issue.
What is problem and solution?
Words that have more than one meaning.
What is a multiple meaning word?
Words that create sound in the readers mind.
What is onomatopoeia?
What tells people how to move on the stage?
Stage directions
Words that have fancy print.
What are italics?
The people or animals that are in a story.
What is a character?
Letters added to mean past tense.
What is to add -ed?
Text organization that tells about two topics and how they are the same and different.
What is compare and contrast?
Explains in a different way.
What is example?
To give an extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
What do we call the "books" of a drama
Words that stand out that are important.
What is bold print.
When you use clues from a story, along with your knowledge.
What is an inference?
What city is Mr. Cross going to in 3 weeks?
What is Rome, Italy
The text organization that gives an event then tells why it happens.
What is cause and effect?
To tell in a formal way.
What is a definition?
Cannot be understood by words alone.
What is an idiom?
What do we call the authors of a drama?
A playwrite.
Where you can look to find information about a picture in a nonfiction book or article.
What is a caption?