Spelling Bee/ ELA Academic Bowl - STUDY GUIDE

Where can you find the "appendix" in a book?

-phobia means _______ ?

Root words 'chron' and 'chrono' mean ________ ?

The root word meaning 'bend' is _______ ?

You use a ________ to find synonyms for a given word.

A suffix of -ness means what?

The meanings of the words 'written' or 'drawn' have a root word of ______ ?

The list in the beginning of the book is called _______ ?

What is an example of Nonfiction text?

The meaning of the word 'people' has the root word of _______ ?

What book genre has supernatural people & give useful truths?

A word with the root of 'hemi' means what?

What is an Inference?

"He stuCK a streaK of bad luCK" is an example of what type of figurative language?

A myth is a _______ ?

'dis' at the beginning of a word means?

'ped' is the root word for?

a ___ can give you instructions on how something works.

The root of 'mit' means to?

What does the word "italic" mean?

What is published yearly that includes weather predictions?

'tele' is a prefix with the meaning of _________ ?

" ___________ " is a booklet including information about a single topic.

This description belongs to? "Repetition of words with the same BEGINNING sound."

The root word 'port' has the meaning of?

the root word of 'cred' has the meaning of what?

Foreshadowing and Flashbacks are 2 examples of what?

Metaphors, Similes, and Puns are all examples of _________ ?

A book about Abraham Lincoln, written by Lincoln, is called what?

The Glossary does what?

This figurative language is used with words that sound like what it is referring to or talking about.

What does an Atlas include?

What is the meaning of Symbolism?

A _______ is a reference in a literary text to something else.

A word with the root of 'pol' means what?

What are big exaggerations called, usually used with humor?

The meaning of 'book' has the root word _____ ?

Representing a person, idea or object by using something else.

The root word 'liber' means?

What does a Thesaurus include inside it?

What reading genre would the story of Peter Pan fall into?

Which of these is NOT Informational text?

These are stories with fictional characters and events in historical settings.

The prefix of de- has the meaning of?

The meaning to the root word in 'break' and 'burst' has a root word of ___________?