ELA Terms
The message or lesson of the story.
Theme
The introduction to a story where characters and setting are introduced.
Exposition
The root(s) for water.
Aqua or Hydro
A comparison of two things using like or as.
Simile
A person, place, or thing.
Noun
A short piece of writing that is generally fiction.
Short Story
The peak of the action. Characters confront the conflict. A choice is made that will impact the rest of the story.
Climax
The root for light.
Photo
Words that sound like what they describe.
Onomatopoeia
Words that express actions or states of being.
Verbs
The perspective from which a piece of content is presented.
Point of View
This brings the story to a happy or tragic ending.
Resolution
The root that means to shape.
Form
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
Personification
Words that describe nouns.
Adjectives
The way an author creates an attitude or mood in a piece of writing.
Tone
This is where the story starts to get complicated.... A lot of conflict and tension are created.
Rising Action
The root that means mind or memory.
Mem
Using extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
The type of sentence that expresses strong emotion and often ends with an exclamation point.
Exclamatory Sentence.
The study of the smallest meaningful parts of words.
Morphology
The story begins to slow down and complications begin to resolve.
Falling Action
The root that means to build or assemble.
Struct
A phrase that means something different from its literal meaning.
Idiom
The type of sentences that make statements and end with a period.
Declarative