ELA Terms 1
A brief, complete overview of a text using only major events/details.
What is a summary?
The feelings or connections that are made with a word or group of words.
What is connotation?
A specific person, place, thing, or idea?
A word that mimics the sound of an object or action it refers to.
What is onomatopoeia?
A comparison that shows how two things are alike in some way without the use of a transitional word.
What is a metaphor?
A brief work of fiction.
What is a short story?
What is denotation?
Words characters use when speaking to one another.
What is dialogue?
Two or more words in a line of poetry or sentence that have the same beginning sound.
What is alliteration?
Language that suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes.
What is imagery?
A short story that seems true to real life.
What is a realistic short story?
To study or look at evidence to support.
What is analyze?
Explicit textual evidence used to support a central idea.
What is supporting evidence?
What is hyperbole?
The act or instance of repeating a word or phrase to emphasize importance.
What is repetition?
What is the theme?
What is a common noun?
Used to set off spoken words.
What are quotation marks?
Giving human qualities to an object or animal.
What is personification?
A reference made to something that is not directly mentioned/explained. It us usually a passing reference to the Bible, mythology, pop culture, or politics.
What is an allusion?
An educated guess based on text evidence.
What is an inference?
The noun a pronoun replaces.
What is an antecedent?
Statements that can be proven to be true.
What are facts?
A comparison between two things that are alike in some way and uses like or as.
What is a simile?
An important and usually repeating idea or theme in a work of art/literature.
What is motif?