ELA Terms
Parts of a Story
ELA Terms #2
ELA Terms #3
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What is theme?

The message/lesson in the story

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What is the setting?

The main place where a story takes place

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Herd and heard are examples of...

homographs
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1st person point of view-what key words do we see?

3rd person point of view-what key words do we see?

me, my, I, we, ours, us, myself

him, her, them, they, names

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What is main idea?

What the story is mostly about?

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What are main characters?

The characters who are most in the story

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Cause & Effect

Which one happens first?

Which one happens because of the first?


cause

effect

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What is authors point of view?

How the author feels (their opinion) about what they are writing about.
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What is an idiom?

A saying that means something different from its literal meaning

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What is the plot?

The main events in a story

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What does it mean to contrast things?

What does it mean to compare things?

Tell how they are different

Tell how they are similar/alike

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What is an antonym?

What is a synonym?

Words that have opposite definitions

Words that have the same definitions

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What is a simile?

Comparing 2 unlike things using the words like or as.

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What is the problem of a story?

An issue that is trying to be solved

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What does personification mean?

Giving human qualities to an animal or object

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What is a proverb?

Something that someone says to try and teach you a lesson

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What is a metaphor?

Comparing 2 unlike things without using the words like or as



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What is the solution in a story?

How they are fixing/solving the story problem

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The root phob means fear, so what is someone with a phobia most likely to do?

laugh, scream, sigh, or yawn

scream
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Where does the suffix occur in a word?

Where does the prefix occur in a word?

At the very end

At the very beginning

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