ELA 1
English
Books and writings published on a particular subject
Literature
A place or surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place (answering the question of where)
Setting
The events that make up a story or the main part of a story. Consists of the exposition (beginning), inciting incident, conflict, rising action, climax, and the resolution (or denouement)
Plot
An individual within a story
Character
Provides essential backstory for characters, plot, and other narrative elements
Exposition
The conflicts, struggles, and pitfalls that the characters faces while trying to achieve their goals
Rising Actions
The turning point of a story
Climax
How things unfold after the climax
Falling Action
Refers to part of the story where conflict and main problems are resolved
Resolution
A story arch, character, or/and a theme that is created based on a set of specific and identifiable qualities or traits
a widely held, but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing
Stereotype
A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly
Theme (Thematic statement)
People, place, or thing
Noun
Concerning the writing, study, or content of literature, especially of the kind valued for quality of form
Literary
Repeat or copy out (a group of words from a text or speech), typically with an indication that one is not the original author or speaker. Typically, can mean something you hear from a movie, read from a book, hear someone say, or something you say.
Quote
a word that can function by itself as a noun phrase and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g., I, you) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g., she, it, this).
Pronoun
A word used to describe an action, state, or occurance, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen
Verb
Describes a verb. Typically express manner, place, time, frequency, degree, level of certainty, etc.
Adverb
a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it.
Adjective
the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics.
Grammar
the marks, such as period, comma, and parentheses, used in writing to separate sentences and their elements and to clarify meaning
Punctuation
The first word of every sentence. The first letter of every name. The pronoun "". The names of places. The names of days, months, and holidays. A person's initials.
Capitalization
The process or activity of writing or naming the letters of word
Spelling
a distinct section of a piece of writing, usually dealing with a single theme and indicated by a new line, indentation, or numbering
Paragraph