Figurative Language
Main idea/Theme
ELA Terms
Types of Genre
Random
100
My son is as tall as a skyscraper.
Simile
100
The most important thought or idea in a text.
Main Idea
100
The time and place the story takes place.
Setting
100
Very old stories. They have gods and goddess. Ex.Zeus
Myth
100
I’m not alive, but I can grow. I don’t have lungs, but I need air. I’m not a plant, but I need water. What am I?
Fire
200
The sun smiled down on us.
Personification
200
The authors overall message of the story.
Theme
200
The sequence of events in a story.
Plot
200
Very old stories. Has magical/imaginary creatures and events. Ex. fairies
Fairy Tales
200
I change shape but never disappear. I can be solid, liquid, or gas, and I’m found everywhere. What am I?
Water
300
The thunder boomed in the distance as the storm approached.
Onomatopoeia
300
What part of the text is the main idea found in?
It can be anywhere. Beginning, middle, or end
300
What format is most essays written in?
CER or CERER
Claim, Evidence, Reason
300
Usually has talking animals in it. Often used to teach a lesson, or might explain how an event happened. Aesop!!!!
Fables
300
You’re running a race and at the very end, you pass the person in 2nd place. What place did you finish the race in?
2nd place
400
Her smile was a mile wide when she saw her new computer
Hyperbole
400
The night sky is filled with lots of things to see. You can see stars. You can see planets. Most nights, you can see the moon. Do you want to see stars, planets, and the moon? Just look up!
Find the main idea
The night sky is filled with lots of things to see.
400
the author’s attitude towards the subject
Tone
400
A true story about your life written by you
Autobiography
400
What has thirteen hearts, but no other organs?
A deck of cards
500
It cost an arm and a leg, but I was able to find the rare model train my dad has been looking for.
Idiom
500
Dinosaurs were animals that lived long ago. Some dinosaurs ate plants. Some ate animals. Some dinosaurs could swim. Some could fly. Some dinosaurs were small. The smallest was the size of a bird. Some dinosaurs were big. The biggest was more than 100 feet long. That is as long as three big school buses!
Find the main idea:
Dinosaurs were animals that lived long ago.
500
the emotional atmosphere or feeling that a literary work evokes in the reader, created through the author’s use of language, setting, and imagery.
Mood
500
Name that Genre and Sub-genre
“Dear Archie, on Friday night, Quentin had three friends spend the night with him. They played hard. It made me realize how old I had grown and how very busy I had been these last few years, to find that they had grown so that I was not needed in the play. Do you remember how we used to play hide and go seek? And have obstacle races down the hall when you brought in your friends?”
Non-fiction/Letter
500
When Grant was 8, his brother was half his age. Now, Grant is 14. How old is his brother?
10 years old