Essays
Words
Narratives
Persuasive
ELA vocab
100

The beginning of an essay

What is an introduction?

100
a word that has the same or similar meaning

What is a synonym?

100

Person or entity telling the story

What is the narrator?

100

Information that you can use to support an argument

What is evidence?

100

A line of text typically included at the top of the page

What is a heading?

200

A section of an essay that is organized into a single topic

What is a paragraph?

200

a word that has an opposite meaning

What is an antonym? 

200

A scene in a story, set in a time earlier than the main story

What is a flashback?

200

Something important to predict of the audience

What is the reader's argument?

200

A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.

What is a stanza?

300

Giving credit to sources used

What is citing sources or what is a bibliography?

300

A resource used to find words that mean something similar

What is a thesaurus? 

300

A story's underlying message, or 'big idea'

What is the theme?

300

The type of research needed to make an effective argument

What are credible sources?

300

A regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style

What is a blog?

400

The end of an essay

What is a conclusion?

400

Describes a noun

What is an adjective?

400

Describes a relationship between actions or events in which at least one action or event is a direct result of the others.

What is cause and effect?

400

Use against the predicted reader's argument

What is a counterargument?

400

To deduce or conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements, an educated guess

What is infer?

500
Created before drafting

What is a plan?

500

Describes a verb

What is an adverb?

500

When the CONFLICT of the PLOT is resolved

What is the climax?

500

In writing, to add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way,

What is elaborate or develop ideas?

500

A small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause.

What is a phrase?

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