ELA Vocabulary
The term for the first paragraph of an essay.
What is an introduction paragraph?
What is a conclusion paragraph?
The sentence without a verb shift error
1. The cashier rushes the order and made a mistake.
2. The cashier rushes the order and makes a mistake.
What is 2. The cashier rushes the order and makes a mistake.
The setting of the story includes the _______ and _________.
What are time and place?
Identify the part of speech in parentheses.
The most popular song in May 1982 (was) "Ebony and Ivory."
What is a verb?
The term for putting information into your own words.
What is a paraphrase?
Two requirements for including information from a source in an essay
Identify the sentence without the verb shift error.
1. I looked around the neighborhood, and I could see water everywhere.
2. I looked around the neighborhood, and you could see water everywhere.
What is 1. I looked around the neighborhood, and I could see water everywhere.?
A story that is written from two different character's perspectives is called a ___________.
What is a dual narrative?
The part of speech in parentheses in the sentence
The (leaky) radiator needs to be fixed.
What is an adjective?
The term for a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word.
What is a synonym?
This is the best thesis statement for an essay on the advantages and disadvantages Smart watches.
1. Smart watches have changed people's lives.
2. Smart watches have many benefits and drawbacks.
3. Smart watches save people's lives from notifying of heart attacks to getting people to be active.
4. Smart watches are everywhere these days.
What is 2. Smart watches have many benefits and drawbacks.?
Sentence without a verb shift error
1. The ballerina danced and was applauded by the audience.
2. The ballerina danced, and the audience applauded.
What is 2. The ballerina danced, and the audience applauded.
The four parts of a plot diagram are _______, ______, ________, and ___________.
What are exposition, rising action, climax, and falling action (accept resolution).
Identify the part of speech in parentheses.
Abraham Lincoln was the (sixteenth) president.
What is an adjective?
An essay term for the controlling statement that tells the topic and writer's point of view.
What is a thesis statement?
Three engagement strategies to start an essay
What are shocking fact, list, anecdote or quote?
I ________ about it until you mentioned it.
1. didn't think
2. hadn't thought
What is hadn't thought?
Characters who change by the end of a story are called _________ characters.
What is dynamic?
Identify the part of speech in parentheses.
Do you believe (in) magic?
What is a preposition?
This is the line of the poem that has the alliteration.
1. Because I could not stop for Death--
2. He kindly stopped for me.
3. We passed the school where children strove
4. at recess in the ring.
What is line 4 because recess and ring both start with the r sound?
A parenthetical citation will include the first word of the source citation which is either _________ or _______.
What are author's last name or first word of the webpage or article title?
When I arrived at the party, everybody _________ home.
1. went
2. has gone
3. had gone
What is had gone?
In the drama "A Christmas Carol," Scrooge visits these three places with the Ghost of Christmas past.
What are his boarding school, his workplace (Fezziwig's for the dance), and outside with his sweetheart (returning his engagement ring).
Identify all of the adverbs in the sentence.
A friendly girl asked Eleanor to join her highly competitive and very large soccer team.
What are highly and very?