ELA 1
ELA 2
ELA 3
ELA 4
ELA 5
100
What is the setting of a story?
Where/when the story takes place
100
When a narrator uses "I, Me," it is written in this perspective
First Person
100
Comparing two unlike things without using like or as.
Metaphor
100
What do you call the beginning of a story.
Introduction or Exposition
100
What is the theme of a story?
the lesson or moral of a story
200
The problem of the story
conflict
200
to make an educated guess based on clues from the text and what you already know.
Making an inference
200
Highlights similarities and differences. (Venn diagram)
Compare and Contrast
200
Narrator tells the inner thoughts/feelings of more than one character.
Third Person Omniscient
200
What is text evidence?
Evidence you can pull directly from the passage to back you up
300
Literary genre with magical elements.
Fantasy
300
Author's purpose to provide facts or an explanation.
To inform
300
Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction.
Fiction = a made up story
Nonfiction = text based on factual information
300
Words spoken by characters.
Dialogue
300
The part of a story where the conflict/problem is solved.
Resolution
400
A story about a person's life, written by another person.
Biography
400
Putting the main idea of a text in your own words.
summarize
400
Repetition of the beginning consonant sound.
alliteration
400
Exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
Hyperbole
400
Author's purpose to convince readers to do something or think a certain way.
persuade
500
What the text/story is all about.
main idea
500
What is at the top? The climax or the resolution?
Climax
500
Literary genre where problems are solved.
Mystery
500
Point of view that uses the pronouns you or your.
2nd person
500
Giving human traits to non-human things.
personification