Figurative Language
This is an extreme exaggeration.
What is hyperbole?
This latin root means water.
What is aqua?
This word means a lesson, especially one concerning what is right, that can be derived from a story, a piece of information, or an experience.
What is moral?
People, places, things, and ideas are examples.
What are nouns?
Name 2 things you can do at home to make sure you are ready to test.
What are: get a good night sleep, eat a hearty breakfast (accept reasonable answer)
This is a comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
This latin root means to see or look.
What is spec?
This word means the lesson or the message that the author wants you to know, but it is not stated.
What is theme?
The number, color, or size of something is described by these.
What are adjectives?
When there is a long passage and several questions, what should you do before you read the passage?
What is read the question(s)?
This is a comparison that does not use like or as. Example, the sun is a yellow ball in the sky.
What is metaphor?
This latin root means foot.
What is ped?
These words are around an unknown word and help you to figure out its meaning.
What are context clues?
When or where something happens is described by these.
What are adverbs?
This is you do when you get stuck, cannot figure out the answer, and are starting to get frustrated.
What is skip the question and come back to it.
A phrase that means something different than its literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
This greek root means heat.
What is therm?
These pictures, graphs, and charts are included to give the reader more information.
What are text features?
These words connect two parts of a sentence.
What are conjunctions?
This is what you do when you come to a multiple choice question that you don't know the answer to.
What is eliminate the answers you can and then choose what you think is the best answer.
A future event is mentioned earlier in a story, or makes you predict what might be coming
What is foreshadow?
This greek root means to write.
What is graph?
Informational text can be set up in different ways like compare and contrast or sequence or description, this is called.
What is text structure?
An adjective that compares two things is comparative adjective like; bigger, smaller, taller. An adjective that compares more than two things is a...
What is a superlative adjective?
This is what you do when you think you are done with the test.
What is go back and recheck your work and make sure you have answered every question to the best of your ability.