6th Grade Vocabulary
6th Grade Figurative Language
6th Grade Popular ELA Terms
6th Grade Nonfiction
6th Grade Fiction
100

What is the definition of compare ?

Identifying similarities between two or more objects.

100

Define METAPHOR

What is a direct comparison of things without using like or as

100

What the text is about: beginning, middle and end, no opinions.

What is the summary?

100

Define nonfiction

What is a book or text that is true and factual?

100

Fantasy, Myths, Folktales are all examples of this genre

What is Fiction?

200

define simile

What is comparing two things using 'like' or 'as'

200

"Ouch!  "Boom!"  "Pow!" are all examples of this

onomatopoeia 

200

The central idea or controlling idea of a text.

What is the main idea?

200

What is cause and effect .

The why and the result of what happens. 

200

Define internal conflict 

What is a problem a character is having with themselves?

300

The lesson which the author is trying to teach in a story.

What is theme?

300

Use of the 5 senses to describe and create pictures in the reader's mind

What is imagery?

300
When the author uses he/she/they or talk from another persons perspective.

Third person P.O.V.

300

Define chronological order in a text

Listing events in the order of when they occur. 

300

The most intense and interesting part or turning point  of a story.  

What is climax?

400

The conversation in a text between characters

What is dialogue?

400
a huge exaggeration
what is hyperbole
400

The third planet from the sun

What is Earth?

400

List 3 examples of Text Features and what they do.

Answers may vary

400

What is the author's purpose of fictional stories?  (usually) 

Author's Purpose is to entertain 

500

Define Inference

What is making an educated guess based on evidence?

500

Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers is an example of...

What is alliteration

500

This is what happens in the exposition part of a plot diagram.

What is the beginning of a story where characters, setting, and key parts are introduced to the reader. 

500

Another name for controlling idea

What is main idea or central idea?

500

The difference between prose and poetry.

What is Literary pieces of work where the author uses creative terms to entertain the reader.  Written in stanza and usually contains different type of figurative language?

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