ELA-Shmee-LA
What is tone?
Answer: The author’s attitude toward the subject.
What is simile?
What is chronological order?
Answer: Events in time order.
What is internal conflict?
Answer: A struggle within a character’s mind.
What is character trait?
Answer: A quality that describes a character.
What is mood?
Answer: The feeling created for the reader.
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics
Spoken words between characters
What is dialogue?
What is a theme in literature?
Theme is a life lesson
What is the climax of a story?
Answer: The most intense point of the story.
What is paraphrasing?
Restating information in your own words.
A thing that represents or stands for something else
What is a symbol?
A point of view using "I" and "me"
What is 1st person (point of view)?
What is external conflict?
Answer: A struggle between a character and something outside.
What is a claim?
Answer: A statement or position that can be argued.
What is plagiarism?
Using someone else’s words or ideas without credit.
Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of each word in a sentence
What is alliteration?
A point of view using "he", "she", "they", etc.
What is 3rd person (point of view)?
What is setting?
Answer: The time and place of a story.
What makes a piece of evidence relevant vs. irrelevant?
Relevant supports the idea; irrelevant does not connect.
What is an inference?
A conclusion based on evidence and reasoning.
What is hyperbole?
Answer: Extreme exaggeration.
A point of view where you can see into everyone's heads
What is 3rd person omniscient?
What is the central idea of a text
Central idea is the main message
What is a summary?
A brief retelling of the main points.