Language Skills Semester Review

What is the difference between a simile and metaphor.

What is the root of the word destructible?

Which word or phrase signals a comparison?

What does the suffix ly mean?

What does the root bio mean?

Which one is an opinion?

Name the onomatopoeia: When he hit the ball, it crashed through the window.

A story with fictional characters about a boy living during the Civil War would be what genre?

What is the author's purpose of an advertisement for toothpaste?

Name the part of speech: The children hastily ran outside for recess.

A phrase or sentence describing a picture is called a ___________.

What does the prefix PRE mean?

Which suffix, when added to the word happy, changes the word to a noun?

What part of speech? We couldn't believe our principal was going to kiss a pig!

Which point of view contains the pronouns he, she, and they?

A book about Jackie Robinson written by his coach would be which genre?