Lit Terms
the problem in the story.
What are conflict, obstacle, and hardship?
Pieces of the text that prove your answer is right.
What are evidence/support?
A comparison of two things without using like or as. Like she is a rock star
What is metaphor?
Your answer to the question in your own words.
What is the claim?
The date of the NYS ELA Test
What are April 29 and April 30th?
People or animals in the story.
What are characters?
To look at details of a text closely.
What are analyze or examine?
The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
Restating the writing prompt is called.
What is a focus statement?
How many hours you have to take the test.
What is as long as you need. It is untimed as long as you finish by the end of day.
Where and when the story takes place.
What is setting?
To write about the differences of something?
What is to contrast?
The narrator of a poem.
Who is the speaker?
The punctuation used around words taken from the text.
What are quotation marks?
The writers opinion about the topic they are writing about.
What is point of view?
The part of the story that wraps everything up at the end.
What is resolution?
Creating a picture in your head based on the details.
What is visualizing?
Words that imitate sounds. ex. pop
What is onomatopoeia?
How many paragraphs are in an essay
What are 4 or 5?
The viewpoint the author has as they are telling the story. ex. they are part of the story or onlooker.
What is perspective?
Words that describe the character's personality.
What are character traits or personality traits?
A small piece of a larger piece of writing.
What is excerpt?
An extreme exaggeration for effect. ex. I am starving to death.
What is hyperbole?
The opposing viewpoint in an argument essay
What is counterclaim?
Words that are spelled differently but have the same meaning.
What is a synonym?