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ELA Final Review
6th Grade ELA Keywords to Review for the Final Exam
Question | Answer |
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Inference | to figure out something based on prior knowledge and evidence from the text. |
Draw a conclusion | to make a decision or generalization based on evidence from the text. |
First person point of view | when the narrator is a character in the story and uses pronouns I and me. |
Third person omniscient point of view | when the narrator is outside the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters. |
Third person limited-omniscient point of view | when the narrator is outside the story but limits the narration to a single character’s perspective. |
Simile | compares two unlike things using like or as, such as cute as a button. |
Metaphor | compares two unlike things without using like or as, such as a wave of justice. |
Personification | gives human qualities to animals or objects, such as howling wind. |
Hyperbole | makes an exaggeration or overstatement. (e.g., This backpack weighs a ton.) |
Onomatopoeia | a sound device in which a word imitates the sound it represents, such as crash and buzz. |
Alliteration | a sound device in which the beginning sounds in words are repeated, such as leaping leopards and happy hands. |
Cause | an event or thing that makes something else happen. |
Effect | something that happens after and as a result of a cause. |
Protagonist | main character or hero in a story. |
Antagonist | the character or group of characters opposing the protagonist in a story. |
Setting | the time and place of a story. |
Conflict | the problem in a story. |
Internal conflict | a problem within the mind of one character. |
External conflict | a problem that takes place between a character and an outside force or person. |
Tone | the attitude of the writer in a story. |
Flashback | an interjected scene in a story that takes place at an earlier time. |
Foreshadowing | when the author gives hints about what is to come in the story. |
Main idea | a central thought or idea. |
Compare | to look at the similarities between two things. |
Contrast | to look at the differences between two things. |
Stanza | a verse in poetry where the lines are written together using a pattern. |
Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. |
Repetition | when sounds, words, phrases, or patterns are repeated throughout a poem for emphasis. |
Refrain | a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem. |
Free verse | a type of poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
Narrative poem | poem that tells a story through poetry. |
Drama | a story written to be performed by actors. |
Monologue | a lengthy speech by one person. |
Stage directions | instructions in a drama meant for the actor. |
Fiction | text with plot, character, point of view, setting, and theme, such as legends and myths. |
Legend | a story about a human being that is passed down through history and often teaches a lesson. |
Myth | a story passed down through history that is meant to explain the supernatural or unknown. |
Nonfiction | text written to explain, argue about, or describe, such as biographies and personal essays. |
Biography | a written account of a real person’s life. |
Autobiography | a written account of a real person’s life written by that person. |
Central idea | the main idea or key point made in the text. |
Author’s bias | his preference toward a specific point of view. |
Facts | statements that can be proven true. |
Opinions | statements that reflect personal feelings or beliefs. |
Graphic organizer | organizes information in a visual system, such as a Venn diagram or web. |
Table of contents | a listing in the front of a book of all its chapters or sections in order by page. |
Glossary | an alphabetical listing in the back of a book of difficult words or concepts from the text and their meanings. |
Propaganda | a type of persuasive advertising that tends to be biased or one-sided. |
Testimonial | a type of propaganda in which a celebrity endorses a product or process. |
Bandwagon | a type of propaganda that claims everyone is using a certain product or process. |
Context clues | words or phrases in a sentence that provide examples, definitions, or restatements of unfamiliar words. |
Idiom | an expression that cannot be literally understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole, such as raining cats and dogs. |
Euphemism | a harmless word or phrase that stands in for another word or phrase that is thought to be unpleasant, such as using passed away instead of died. |
Denotation | a word's literal dictionary definition. |
Connotation | includes the emotional feelings a word carries and implies. |
Transitions | words or phrases in writing that smoothly lead from one idea to the next, such as therefore and next. |
Appositive | a word or phrase that renames a noun and is set apart by commas unless necessary to the meaning of the sentence. (Bob, my neighbor, plays tennis.) |
Narrative | writing that tells a story. |
Plot | is the sequence of events, including the exposition, crisis, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. |
Sensory details | descriptive details in writing based on the five senses of taste, smell, touch, hearing, and sight. |
Persuasive writing | meant to convince the reader to a certain course of thought or action. |
Paraphrase | to state in your own words the meaning of what someone else has said or written. |
Summarize | to retell the important ideas from what you read or heard in fewer words. |
Bibliography | a list of sources referred to in a piece of writing. |
Author’s purpose | the reason the author crafts a piece of writing, such as to entertain, inform, or persuade. |