Academic Vocabulary
A word that means difference or to show difference.
What is contrast?
The definition of the word "influence."
What is change, alter, affect, or impact?
A comparison that uses like or as.
What is simile?
The genre frames for a fiction text.
What is CSCRT (characters, setting, conflict, resolution, and theme)
What you should write in large clear letters on every page of your annotations tomorrow.
This is where you should look in a text to find clues about the theme.
What is the end of the text?
This is what you should look at first when taking the writing test.
What is the writing prompt?
A word that means to add or give.
What is contribute?
A word that refers to when characters are talking in a text.
What is dialogue?
A comparison that does not use like or as.
What is metaphor?
You should do this as soon as you are handed your scratch paper.
What is fold the paper and add the genre frames?
What feature should you ALWAYS use when answering multliple choice questions?
What is slash the trash?
The meaning of the word desire.
What is a strong feeling of wanting for something?
The part of the prompt that shows you what you are writing about.
What is the magic sentence?
A word that means to grow or make clear.
What is develop?
The meaning of the word "defy".
What is to go against or disobey?
Giving human-like qualities to non-human objects.
What is personification?
What you should write at the end of your paper for both fiction or poetry genre frames.
What is theme?
What is slash the trash?
What you should do on EVERY TEXT.
Two strategies you can always rely on for a hook.
What are imagination and definition?
A word that means to show something for the first time.
What is reveal?
The meaning of the word chronological.
What is in the order of time/ the order of events as they occurred?
An exaggeration used to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
The genre frames for poetry.
What is literal meaning, figurative language, and deeper meaning/ theme?
Given this question, you should do this first.
What is the meaning of the word aspect as it is used in paragraph 7?
What is go back to paragraph 7, find the word aspect, and read to see what you think it means?
The meaning of the words various/ variety/ varies.
What is different/ multiple / many.
The three parts of your introduction paragraph in order.
What is hook, bridge, thesis?
At least 3 words that mean to show.
What is convey, illustrate, portray, show, reveal, indicate, etc.?
The meaning if someone says they are "content" with something.
What is being happy, satisfied, okay with something?
Words that are written like they sound.
What is onomatopoeia?
When reading a text, especially a poem, you can use these symbols to keep track of the general tone.
What is +/-?
Unless you have starred or purposely skipped a question, you should avoid doing this on ELA multiple choice questions.
What is changing answers/ second guessing?
This is what you are looking for when a given a two part multiple choice question and asked to select evidence in part B.
What is repeated/ similar words and/or ideas from Part A?
The chart you should make on your annotation paper if you get a this or that style argument prompt on Thursday.
What is a t-chart?
The meaning of the word emphasize.
What is to draw attention to or highlight?
The definition of the word "lacking."
What is not having?
The meaning of the word repetition?
What is being repeated over and over and over again?
The question words you can use if you get stuck on a nonfiction passage.
What is who, what, when, where, how, why?
Where you can look in a poem or story to help find the theme if you are stuck.
What is the end of the text?
The error in this sentence.
Ms. New, my history teacher- always plans fun activities for our class.
The paragraph in your essay that will be different in an argument essay.
What is your last body paragraph?
The meaning of the word OBJECTIVE as it relates to ELA.
What is just the facts and no opinions?
The meaning of the word melancholy.
What is sad?
Descriptive language that appeals to the five sense.
What is imagery?
You should look for a ____________ in tone, setting, or speaker when reading a poem.
What is shift?
What you should do if you are completely stuck on a text at the beginning of the ELA test?
What is flag all the questions and come back to it later?
You run out of time and have 11 questions left. This is what you should do when it is time to submit.
What is choose ONE letter (A, B, C, or D) and choose that letter for ALL remaining questions?
(What is NOT random guessing?)
The sentence frames you can use for a counterclaim and rebuttal in your last body paragraph of an argument essay.
What is some people argue... and however, __?