Poetry
Vocabulary
Informational Text
Figurative Language
Fiction
100

True or False: All poems need to rhyme.

False

100

Crash, Boom, Pop, Splash

Onomatopoeia

100
What the author wants you to know about the topic of an informational text

Central Idea

100

a comparison using "like" or "as"

What is a simile?

100

The message or moral of the story

Theme

200

the "paragraph" of a poem

What is a stanza?

200

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things

Personification

200
Text that is organized by how and why something happens

Cause and Effect

200

giving an object human qualities

What is personification?

200

A short version of the story with all major points

summary

300

the narrator of a poem

speaker

300
Word choice that connects with the 5 senses

Imagery

300

To persuade, inform, explain, or entertain

author's purpose

300

Tom taught Tina to play tennis.

What is alliteration?

300

The part of the plot when the conflict begins to be resolved

Falling Action

400

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I passed ELA

I hope you did too!

What is the rhyme scheme?

What is ABCB?

400
"The classroom was a tornado of chaos"

Metaphor

400

The text is organized by dates

chronological

400

BOOM!

BAM!

Bzzzzzzz!

Ringgggg!

What is onomatopoeia?

400

The author's attitude towards the subject of a poem, drama, or fiction

Tone

500

The feeling you get while reading a poem

Mood

500

The events that happen in a story or drama.

Plot

500

What you know plus what the text states allows you to make _______

Inferences

500

an exaggeration; For example, I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

What is hyperbole?

500

A summary that is based on facts only without emotions.

Objective Summary