ELA Terms
What is main idea?
What the story is mostly about?
What are main characters?
The characters who are most in the story
Collected data, and clues collected from observations made.
What is evidence?
What is authors point of view?
To quote a passage, book, author, etc.; to refer to an example
What is a citation?
What does the author use to set the mood?
The part of the story with increased tension and keeps you turning the pages
What is rising Action?
A challenge to ones argument
What is a counterclaim?
Words that have the same definitions
What is a synonym?
Words that have opposite definitions
What is an antonym?
a group of words taken from a text or speech and repeated by someone other than the original author or speaker.
What is a quotation?
the materials from which the writer gathers ideas and information
What are sources?
Herd and heard are examples of...
homographs
a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
what is theme?
a statement that demonstrates what a writer intends to support and/or prove. Serves a clear roadmap for the direction of a paper.
What is a thesis?
The base word you start with before adding prefixes or suffixes
What is a root word?
the conclusion or solution to the story
Resolution
What does personification mean?
Giving human qualities to an animal or object
Tells us more about a noun. Describes the noun. Examples: green slow, five, stinky, tall, round
What is adjectives?
a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
What is inference?
A figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person, or something that happened; can be real or imaginary
What is an Allusion?
The choice and use of words and phrases
what is diction?
addition of details and explanation
what is elaboration?
a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web.
What is a website?
The arrangements of events according to the time they occurred (i.e., from first to last)
What is Chronological order?