Plot
ELA Vocabulary
Grammar
Writing
Types of Figurative Language
100

Where/when the story takes place

What is the setting?

100

What the story is mostly about

What is main idea

100

Part of speech that is an action word

What is a Verb?

100

The name of the first paragraph in your essay.

What is an Introduction?

100

as quiet as a mouse

What is a Simile? 

200

The problem of the story

conflict
200

How things are different or the same

What is Compare and Contrast?

200

The correct antecedent in this sentence "The child will get their toys tomorrow."

What is Children?

200

The last paragraph in your essay

What is a conclusion. 

200

I am feeling under the weather

What is an Idiom?

300

The message or lesson of the story

Theme 

300

How the text is organized.

What is text structure.

300

The punctuation marks used to cite evidence from the text?

What are quotation marks?

300

Gives a little information on the topic and may include facts, historical figures, timelines, definitions, origins, theories, events, and more.

What is Background Information?

300

You are my sunshine.

What is a metaphor? 

400

Part of the plot that includes the setting and characters

Exposition

400

When the narrator uses "She, He, they" it is written in this perspective 

Third Person 

400

The pronoun in this sentence:

"Mrs. Salonga was so excited to teach her students this new math."

What is "her"

400

The first sentence in a piece of writing that makes your reader want to keep reading.

What is a Hook?

400

Amrita carried home a ton of papers that she had to grade before Friday

What is Hyperbole?

500

Put the following plot elements in order: climax, falling action, rising action, resolution, exposition.

Exposition

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Resolution

500

What a nonfiction text is mostly about

Central Idea

500

The word a pronoun replaces.

What is an antecedent?

500

A statement that tells what a writing will be about. The last sentence of your Introduction.

What is a Thesis Statement

500

Clary closed her cluttered clothes closet.

What is Alliteration? 

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