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ELA Vocabulary
Comprehension terms
Figurative Language
Poetry
100
When you encounter an unfamiliar word, you can use these to understand it. They are the words and phrases surrounding the word that provides hints about the word's meaning
What is context clues?
100
An author usually writes for one or more of these reasons--to express thoughts or feelings, to inform or explain, to persuade, and to entertain.
What is author's purpose?
100
What type of prose writing uses imaginary characters and events?
What is fiction?
100
Language that appeals to the five senses--sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
What is imagery?
100
This literary form presents ideas and stirs emotions in readers. It contains figurative language, imagery, and sometimes rhyme. It speaks to the heart and to the senses
What is poetry?
200
The arrangement of events by their order of occurrence. This type of organization is used in fictional narratives and in historical writing, biography, and autobiography.
What is chronological order?
200
A struggle between opposing forces. Forms include external and internal
What is conflict?
200
The perspective or vantage point from which a story is told; refers to how an author chooses to narrate a story.
What is point of view?
200
The use of creative comparisons to help readers picture ordinary things in new ways.
What is figurative language?
200
Poetry not written in a regular rhythmic pattern or meter.
What is free verse?
300
Speaking or writing that expresses a position on a problem and supports it with reasons and evidence. It takes into account other points of view.
What is argument?
300
The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader. Descriptive words, imagery, and figurative language all play a major role.
What is mood?
300
A message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader; a moral or lesson of the story. In many cases, readers must infer what the writer's message is.
What is theme?
300
A widely told story about the past, one that may have a foundation in fact.
What is a legend?
300
A poem's shape or the way that a poem's words and lines are laid out on the page.
What is form?
400
A logical guess that is made based on facts (textual evidence) and one's own prior knowledge and experience.
What is inference?
400
The time and place of the action of a story, poem, or play. Sometimes, the setting is clear and well-defined. At other times, it is left to the reader's imagination.
What is to setting?
400
This expresses the writer's attitude toward his or her subject. Words such as angry, sad, and humorous can be used to describe it.
What is tone?
400
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
What is personification?
400
The formal division of lines in a poem, considered as a unit. These often function as paragraphs,
What is a stanza?
500
Elements of a text such as boldface type, headings, and subheadings, that help organize and call attention to important information. These also include italic type, bulleted or numbered lists, sidebars, and graphic aids such as charts, tables, timelines, illustrations, and photographs
What are text features?
500
The way in which a text is put together (or organized).
What is (text) structure?
500
The series of events in a story--usually centers on a conflict faced by the main character
What is plot?
500
A person, a place, an object, or an activity that stands for something beyond itself.
What is symbol?
500
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words. Examples include internal, end, true, and slanted.
What is rhyme?