Vocabulary Quiz

Language Devices

• Acronym: A combination of letters representing a longer phrase (e.g., FBI).
• Alliteration: Using words that begin with the same sound close together (e.g., wild and woolly).
• Anecdote: A short story about a memorable event.
• Anthology: A collection of writings from different authors (e.g., poems, short stories).
• Argument: A statement using evidence to support an opinion.
• Assumption: Something believed to be true, often based on partial facts.
• Autobiography: A nonfiction book written about a person by that person.
• Bibliography: A list of sources used in a report, usually placed at the end.
• Book Review: A summary of a book, including opinions about the story, style, and ending.
• Brochure: A small book or magazine giving information, often with pictures, about a product or place.
• Catalog: A book with a list of items that can be bought, often including pictures.
• Chronological Order: Arranging things in the order they happened.
• Conclude: To put information together to form a new idea.
• Context: Using surrounding phrases to understand an unfamiliar word or phrase.
• Conversation: The interactions between two or more people.
• Dialogue: The words spoken by characters in a story, movie, or play.
• Diary: A personal record of daily experiences and thoughts.
• Editorial: A newspaper or magazine article expressing an opinion.
• Evaluate: To assess the value or condition of something carefully.
• Exaggeration: Describing something as larger or greater than it actually is.
• Excerpt: A small part of a longer written work.
• Explain: To make something clear or easy to understand.
• Feeling: An emotional state or reaction.
• Field Guide: A book to help identify specific things (e.g., plants, animals).
• Figurative Language: Special phrases making writing more interesting, such as metaphors.
• Graph: A visual representation of data, using lines, bars, or dots.
• Graphic Organizer: A visual tool aiding understanding of information, such as a Venn diagram.
• Homonym: A word that sounds like another word but has a different meaning.
• Literary Device: Special writing techniques increasing readability and memory (e.g., foreshadowing).
• Literary Elements: Key parts of a story that authors use to create a great story (e.g., plot, character).

Other Writing Skills

• Excerpt: A portion of a longer work.
• Explain: Make something clear.
• Evaluate: Judge the worth of something.
• Exaggeration: Describes something as larger than it really is.
• Feeling: An emotional state or reaction.