ELA Terms 1
The main character
protagonist
the person or thing that is causing the protagonist problems
antagonist
to trick or mislead
decieve
illogical thinking or behavior
absurd
someone in the same age group
peer
adjectives used to describe a character's personality or behavior traits
character traits
a brief summary of the text without opinion
objective summary
to defeat
vanquish
easy to train
docile
social; happy to be with others
gregarious
the most important idea about the topic of a paragraph, section or passage OR what a paragraph, section, or passage is mostly about
central idea
the way an author organizes his/her writing to convey meaning
text structure
cure or solution to a problem
remedy
easy going, not strict
lenient
to merge apart
divergence
to break something down into parts to see how the parts work together
analyze
the important pieces of information found in the text that support the central ideas, author's purpose, theme, etc.
key details
to be without food or shelter
destitute
full of light
luminous
to give a stern warning
admonish
words written under images, graphs, illustrations, etc. to provide more information to the read about the image, graph, illustrations, or etc.
caption
titles for short sections of a text
subtitles
loud and aggressive
belligerent
hard working
dilligent
sad; feeling low in spirits
dejected