Mrs. Maddox: Vocabulary Review

This is when you use background knowledge to understand and connect to new ideas.

• schema

• comprehension

• alliteration

• vocabulary

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An action or event that makes something else happen.

• description

• solution

• effect

• cause

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

Words that have opposite meanings

• synonyms

• antonyms

• vocabulary

• context clues

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

The sequence of events that happen in a literary story.

• characters

• setting

• plot

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

Words whose sounds suggest their meaning. (pop! fizz!)

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The repeated consonant sounds in a string of words in connected text. ex: She Sells Sea Shells by the Sea Shore.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

A word part (usually a syllable) added to the BEGINNING of a word that changes the word's meaning.

• root

• suffix

• prefix

• meter

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A word part added to the END of a root word to change the condition of the word.

• suffix

• root

• prefix

• antonym

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

A phrase or expression that differs from the literal meaning of the words. (It's raining cats and dogs!)

• idiom

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

An extreme exaggeration.

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A