General ELA
The location and time of a story
What is the setting?
This part of an essay tells what the topic will be.
What is the introduction?
To use strong exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
Person, Place or Thing
What is a noun?
This part of the plot introduces the characters, setting and conflict.
What is Exposition?
A word opposite in meaning to another
What is an antonym?
This is a short version of the story that includes just the important details.
What is the summary?
"The bright orange walls screamed at her as she walked into the room." is an example of what type of figurative language?
What is personification?
If you have two complete sentences combined without proper punctuation (period), you have a _________.
Run-on sentence
This part of the plot concludes the story.
What is Resolution?
What genre is a story that could happen in real life but is made up?
What is realistic fiction?
This type of writing is about a personal experience.
What is a personal narrative?
What is a metaphor?
This type of punctuation precedes (comes before) a list of things.
What is a colon?
This part of the plot is the most exciting and the turning point of the story.
What is climax?
This is the main message the author wants to convey in his/her story. This is the moral is the lesson that the writer wants you to learn from the story.
What is a theme?
When the story is told from the perspective of the narrator, using words like "I" or "me"
What is first person?
Words like BAM, boom, click, zap, clap, zing, etc. are examples of type of figurative language?
Onomatopoeia
Type of sentence made when 2 simple sentences are joined.
What is a compound sentence?
This part of the plot builds the conflict.
What is rising action?
the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence.
What is a plot?
This is the last part of a paper that wraps it up. It is best to end this with an impact statement.
A group of words that mean something other than the literal meaning.
What is idiom?
Words that describe nouns in a sentence.
For example:
- BEAUTIFUL scenery.
- OLD person.
- FAVORITE book.
What is an ADJECTIVE?
This part of the plot is when the conflict is close to be completely solved.
What is falling action?