Read the passage below. Which word or words best helps you understand the meaning of the word obedient?

The obedient child always followed her mother's requests. That night, she brushed her teeth, folded her clothes, and went to bed before her mother had to come in and remind her.

At the restaurant, we were offered a variety of beverages, like milk and ice tea.

When I fell off the trampoline, I fractured my arm and wore a cast

What do you call a word that has the opposite meaning of another word?

When you are reading and come to an unknown word, what should you do first?

A fiction book about a superhero saving the world would be an example of which purpose?

A step-by-step guide for building and keeping your own beehive would be an example of which purpose?

A newspaper article that gives the stats and results of last night's football game would be an example of which purpose?

An opinion article that urges readers to support local businesses during hard economic times would be an example of which purpose?

Simple is to complex as bakrupt is to ___________________________

Toad is to amphibian as snake is to ____________________________

Humouous is to funny as terrifying is to _______________________

King is to rule as judge is to ________________________

pen : author :: brush : _____

empty: full::

cheap: inexpensive::

Spend Save:: Give:

The trapeze artist stood high on the platform. The whole crowd was silent. The trapeze artist rubbed his hands on his knees, grabbed the flying trapeze, and sprung into the air. Just as the trapeze had swung its full length, the trapeze artist released his grip and did a triple flip. He narrowly caught a second trapeze bar and swung from it by his legs. The crowd cheered. Another trapeze artist ascended the platform.

Chuck analyzed the engine. With his experienced gaze, he was able to tell that the vehicle needed a fan belt. He figured that the job would take twenty minutes and cost about ten dollars, but he had bills to pay. He summoned the customer over to him with a wave. "Ma'am," he said, "your vehicle needs a new radiator. It's going to take about four hours and cost around five hundred dollars, he lied. The woman smiled. "So I get my car back tonight?" she asked. "That shouldn't be a problem," replied Chuck. The woman, still smiling, said, "Thanks, Chuck. You're a good guy." Chuck felt a little guilty, but he smiled back at her and said, "You're so welcome."

The stage was bordered with colorful lights but otherwise dark, yet in the center was a single spotlight, and in the center of that was microphone stand. I slowly walked across the stage with my hands by my side. The crowd murmured. I grabbed the microphone from the stand and cleared my throat. Then I held it a few inches from my face and said, "Greetings, my fellow Thunderhawks. Are you ready to get excited about the pep rally?" One guy clapped slowly.

“Do you love candy?” I asked my friend Roxie. I always make friends with other people.

As you cross the crystal bridge, you hear the sound of two voices coming from the shores of the river. One of the voices sounds distressed. The other sounds are angry. At the end of the crystal, the bridge is a herd of wild horses. You notice that they are stamping the ground violently. If you would like to go to the shore and find out who's talking, turn to page 47. If you'd like to approach the wild horses, turn to page 58.

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There are five teams of students in the fifth grade. The blue team has math first period, and the red team has science. The yellow team gets to go outside early in the morning, while the green team goes to music. Only students on the orange team get to play games in the first period. Each student wears a nametag with his or her color so that the teachers and students all know where a student should be.

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The Elk River flows from the far northern part of the state all the way to the southern tip. All kinds of animals rely on it for drinking water, people eat the fish they catch in it, and farmers in the state depend on it for irrigating their crops. Since there is very little rain in this state, the Elk River gives animals and humans the water they need to stay alive. Even though the river is not nearly the biggest in the nation, it is very important to the people and animals that live near it.

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As soon as she arrived at grandmother's house, Jessica ran into her bedroom to look at the blue quilt. It covered her grandmother's bed and was Jessica's favorite. It had patches of dark blue, medium blue, and light blue, with pictures of birds and flowers on every other patch. Jessica liked to take naps with the quilt wrapped around her. She loved the way it felt so soft and warm against her skin. Whenever she was visiting grandma, just looking at the quilt made Jessica happy.

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Books lay in the middle of his floor. Several broken toys were shoved halfway under the bed, and dirty clothes were everywhere. Frank's parents kept telling him to clean his room, but it never seemed to get clean. In fact, if Frank did manage to clean part of it, the rest of the room just got messier. In one corner of the room was an old peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an open bag of potato chips was thrown on the dresser.

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Math didn't make much sense to Cathy. She always got area and perimeter mixed up and she had no idea what a right angle was. Last quarter she failed math, and this quarter wasn't any better. For as long as she could remember, math had been hard for Cathy. She did fine in reading and science, but not math. Now she was working on her math homework, but she didn't know how to do most of it. Who invented math, anyway!

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Jose carefully poured out the bag of marbles on his bed. He picked his ten favorite marbles and carefully set them to the side. Then he got out a small bag from his top drawer and put the ten marbles inside. Just to make sure he wouldn't forget them, he placed the bag of marbles in his backpack. Jose loved the show and tell, and he was excited that he would get to show his class some of his favorite marbles.

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"Are you already done, son?" his father asked. "It seems like you just got in the water." Jacob was finished with his bath in less than two minutes. He got his body and hair wet, rubbed some grape flavored shampoo on his hair, washed his body with soap, and quickly rinsed it off. He liked to take fast baths so he would have more time to play. In fact, Jacob never took a long bath. To him, the faster the bath, the better.

When two or more words have the same ending sound, it is called

Crash, ZOINK, Moo, BOOM, and POP are examples of

Poetry is...

Her eyes are as sparkly as a diamond is a

Words that are used within a poem repeatedly to express a certain point

Comparing two things WITHOUT using LIKE or AS is called

On the beautiful summer night, the trees danced in the breeze is an example of ...

Several lines grouped together in a poem

Descriptive writing that appeals to any of our five senses

It was July, and the sun

toasted the emerald grass

until it smelled of warmth

and green and life.

It was July, and my heart

soaked up the air warmth

until it sang of joy

and love and life.

How many stanzas are in the poem above

It was July, and the sun

toasted the emerald grass

until it smelled of warmth

and green and life.

It was July, and my heart

soaked up the air warmth

until it sang of joy

and love and life.

How many lines in the poem above?

Using words with the same beginning sound to highlight keywords, make a poem memorable, or create a feeling or mood

is called

The musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

is called

A figure of speech that

offers an exaggerated

or extravagant statement

(that is not meant to be taken literally)

in order to highlight a point

is called

Using a concrete object or phrase

to represent a different abstract idea

is called

A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.

"Time flies by!" The kind of figurative language used here is _______

What's the meaning of this simile?

"My mom can be as fiery as a volcano when I don't do my chores on time."

What's the meaning of this metaphor?

"After all the fans left the stadium, the bleachers were a disaster area."

The part of the story that reveals the solution and takes care of the conflict

The story's time and the place is

A person portrayed in a literary work is called

A character who shows varied traits; we know a lot about them

Which part of the story is represented by this blue box?

A character who we know very little about; they reveal very few character traits

A character who changes over the course of the story is a

A character who stays the same over the course of a story is a

The person who tells the story is the

The message the author wants to get across is the

Which part of the story is represented by this blue box?

Which part of the story is represented by this blue box?

Which part of the story is represented by this blue box?

Which part of the story is represented by this blue box?

In this element of the plot, the author introduces the characters and setting...

In this element of the plot, the problem/conflict is introduced..

The main character of the story is

The sequence of events in a story is the

How the author describes the characters is known as

The tone of a story indicates the authors

This text structure is "how are things in the text similar or different."

This nonfiction structure is used when an author or writer conducts an interview.

The text structure that discusses what is specifically being described is ______________.

The text structure that is written in a style that tells what happened and why it happens is...

The text structure that shows events taking place over time or gives steps is...