Vocabulary
Grammar
Elements of Nonfiction
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WILD
100
This is the Latin root portare meaning.
What is to carry?
100
This part of speech is used to modify a verb.
What is an adverb?
100
The most important idea of a text.
What is main idea?
100
The plural form of half.
What is halves?
100
The general feeling that a literary work gives the reader.
What is mood?
200

Use the ending –port to create the word meaning, “to bring in goods”.

What is import?

200
A common ending for an adverb.
What is –ly?
200
The main idea is usually restated here.
What is the final paragraph or conclusion?
200
The past tense of carry is this.
What is carried?
200
The four purposes for authors to write.
What are to inform, to entertain, to reflect, and to persuade?
300

The Latin root spectare meaning.

What is to watch?

300
The adjective in the sentence: Raul is an excellent student.
What is excellent?
300
Text that is based on facts and free from opinions is known as this.
What is expository?
300
The adjective form that compares three or more things.
What is superlative?
300
This can help set the mood of a story, it is where and when the story takes place.
What is setting?
400

The root of a word often comes from this language.

What is Latin or Greek?

400
The adjective good is used to modify these.
What is nouns and pronouns?
400
Text that is trying to convince you to agree with his or her view is known as this.
What is persuasive writing?
400
The comparative form of happy is this.
What is happier?
400
This type of organizational pattern is used to write a recipe.
What is chronological?
500

This is the root of the word “scribble”.

What is scribere?

500
The adjective well is used to modify these.
What is an action verb?
500
Authors use misleading information to promote their message and get people to change their opinion is known as this persuasive writing tool.
What is propaganda?
500
Special kind of adjective a, an and the are known as this.
What is an article?
500
The organizational pattern used to tell why something happened.
What is cause and effect?