Set #7

Question 1

Give an example of a root word

Answer 1

vis=to see (vision, visual, video)

Question 2

What is the correct way to write the title of a book?

Answer 2

Titles are written with quotation marks, italicized words, or underlining.

Question 3

What is past perfect tense?

Answer 3

Verb that describes an action that began before some other event.
ex. We had gone over weather before we began studying force and motion.

Question 4

What is present perfect tense?

Answer 4

Verb that describes an action that began at an indefinite time in the past.
ex. we have gone over weather many times

Question 5

What is fiction? Non-fiction?

Answer 5

fiction=made up story

non-fiction=true information

Question 6

What is a genre?

Answer 6

A type of writing

ex. fiction, non-fiction, biography, poetry, legend, folktale, etc.

Question 7

What are characteristics?

Answer 7

Details about a person or an object.

ex. young, old, heavy

Question 8

What are character traits?

Answer 8

Details about a character that describe the “inside” of a character.
ex. greedy, honest, sweet, mean, honorable, dishonorable, etc.

Question 9

What are context clues?

Answer 9

Information in the text that can help you understand an unknown word.

Question 10

Where can context clues be found?

Answer 10

In the same sentence as an unknown word–or in teh sentences before or after the unknown word. Look carefully!