ELA Vocab
This is the author's message in a text.
What is a Theme?
This is the core message or most important point an author wants to convey in a text.
What is the Central Idea?
Criteria used for grading.
What is a rubric?
This is the turning point in a narrative/plot.
What is climax?
Giving human qualities to non-living or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
This is the author's attitude towards a subject.
What is tone?
This is an opinion.
What is a claim?
to look over again in order to correct and improve your writing.
What is revised?
This acronym LAT stands for.
What is Literary analysis task?
What is simile?
This is the turning point in the story.
What is Climax?
A conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
restating the at the end of your essay.
What is a conclusion?
This is another word for a story.
What is a narrative?
A comparison of two things not using the word like or as.
What is metaphor?
This is the position from which a story is being told or the perspective .
What is Point of View?
Some things the character struggles with from the inside.
What is internal conflict?
This question/sentence lures or captures the reader at the beginning of your essay.
What is the hook?
Outside struggle or force the character struggles with.
What is external struggle?
The use of words in a non-literal way to create a vivid or imaginative impression.
What is figurative language?
This is a different ending to a story.
What is alternate ending?
Looking at the structure for poetry. An essay has paragraphs while a poem has this.
What are stanzas?
This is looking for key words or terms.
What is break down the prompt?
A reader's feeling about a text.
What is mood?
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
What is symbolism?