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figurative language
elements of a short story
Vocabulary
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Vocab words
100

Giving a nonhuman human characteristics

What is personification?

100

where and when an event takes place in a short story

What is setting

100

It is what the passage or paragraph is about.

What is the main idea?

100

the setting of A Long Walk to Water

What is Southern Sudan?
100
The location of our first field trip
What is skating 
200

a direct comparison of two different things

What is metaphor

200

the most intense or exciting high point of a short story

What is climax

200

The reason why an author writes.

What is Author's Purpose?

200

The final sentence of the the intro paragraph in an essay

What is a thesis statement

200

The number of essays we wrote in ELA

What is 2 
300
extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole
300

the main events of a short story

What is plot

300

When you do not know the definition and you have to look around the word.

What is context clues?

300
What you always always need to support your answers in ELA 

What is evidence

300

The first names of all your teachers

What is Deon, Jenny, Christopher, Amber, Renna, Darian

400
the use of words that sound like what they mean, such as "hiss," "buzz," "slam," and "boom"
What is onomatopoeia
400

the lesson or moral of a story

What is theme

400

An author/character's feelings towards a certain topic

What is point of view?

400

Using prior knowledge and what you read to determine what is happening.

What is inference?

400

The number of texts we've read in ELA class

What is 20

500
the repeated use of the same constant at the beginning of words
What is alliteration
500

The events leading up to the climax

What is rising action

500

The vocabulary an author uses to show how he or she feels about a topic.

What is tone?

500

The main character in the movie Holes

Who is Stanley Yelnats

500
The name of the park we go to for field day

What is Delores Bennett park