ELA Random
Fact or opinion: Asparagus is the most delicious vegetable ever.
Opinion
You use these around text evidence or details from a text.
What are quotation marks?
The suffix -er means what?
A person who does, makes or practices.
What is the purpose of a topic sentence in a paragraph?
It explains what your paragraph will be about so your readers get an idea of what they're about to read.
Think back to Gigi and the Wishing Ring. The text structure for this story was what?
Problem and Solution
If a text uses the words "he", "she", or "they" to tell a story.
- is the narrator in the story or out of the story?
When is the narrator out of the story?
Give an example of a verb
What is run, skip, walk, jump, etc?
This text structure is when an author says how things are the same and how they are different.
What is compare and contrast?
I did not study for my math test, so I did poorly. This would be what kind of text structure?
Cause and Effect
He is a ray of sunshine would be an example of what kind of figurative language?
Metaphor
These are hints, synonyms, antonyms, or phrases in a sentence around a single word.
What are context clues?
What does the author's opinion mean?
The author's thoughts or feelings.
If the prefix -un goes in the word unavailable-what does that mean?
What is, not able to do something
What is the purpose of a conclusion in an essay?
The purpose of a conclusion in a story is to provide a final summary of the main points and discuss the core message.
You give human characteristics or qualities to things that are not alive.
The theme of this paragraph?
Sadie was kicking a soccer ball in the house and broke her mom's expensive vase. The vase was shattered into a million pieces. She went to her mom and told her what she had done even though she knew she'd be punished.
What is honesty?
synonym of hard
difficult
The text structure that puts events in order is known as...
(What do we call it when we put something in order)
What is a sequence or chronological order?
Explain the difference between fact and opinion.
Fact: Information stated from proven evidence.
Opinion: How someone personally feels.
Mr. Marasco gave us 5,000 pages of work is an example of...?
Hyperbole
When I go back to the story to find the proof of my answer to a question, I am using...
antonym of excited
sad
It was raining cats and dogs. The idiom "raining cats and dogs" means
What is it's raining really hard?
"The stars are like diamonds in the sky". Is it a metaphor or simile
simile
This phrase does not mean exactly what it says.
Example: cold feet
What is an idiom?