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Rockin Reading Words
ELA vocabulary words - review for my EOG
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| act | a large section of a long drama, sometimes made up of scenes |
| affix | a word part added to the beginning or ending of a word that changes the meaning of the word. |
| antonym | a word that has the opposite meaning of another word |
| body | the middle part of a piece of writing, which gives more information about the main idea |
| cause | something that brings about an effect or result |
| chapter | one section of a longer story |
| character traits | details about a character's appearance or personality |
| chronological order | the order in which events happen |
| cite evidence | to find information in a text that supports your thinking |
| climax | the point in a fictional narrative when the conflict is most serious; the high point of the action |
| comma | punctuation mark that separates items in a list, or sets off an introduction or question |
| compare | to show how two objects or ideas or people are ALIKE |
| conflict | a problem that the main characters in a fictional story must face |
| conjunction | a word that connects two words, sentences, or phrases - such as and, but, or |
| context clue | to show how two objects or ideas or people are DIFFERENT |
| correlative conjunctions | two conjunctions that relate to each other and join parts of a sentence, such as either... or |
| dialect | vocabulary and pronunciation that belong to a particular time, place or social group |
| dialogue | the words that characters speak in a text |
| drama | a story that is performed on a stage by actors; a play |
| effect | the result of a cause |
| explanatory text | nonfiction text in which the author gives information about a specific subject and supports it with facts and details |
| figurative language | language that does not mean exactly what it says |
| first person point of view | text in which the narrator is a character in the story; contains the pronoun I |
| flashback | when the present action in a fiction text suddenly stops and goes back to events in the past |
| future perfect tense | verb tense that describes an action that will occur in the future, for example 'I will have gone three days without TV by the time I get home from camp'. |
| graphic features | photographs, illustrations, time lines, diagrams, and graphs in nonfiction writing |
| graphic novel | a genre of writing that uses text and also panels of illustrations to tell a story |
| historical nonfiction | a genre of writing that tells about real events or people from the past |
| informative text | nonfiction text where the author gives information and supports it with facts and details |
| interjection | a word or phrase used in a way that shows feeling, such as "wow" or "oh my goodness" |
| literal language | a word or phrase that means the same as its dictionary meaning |
| main idea | the most important point in a piece of writing; what a text is mostly about |
| inference | something a reader figures out by using information in a the text and their own knowledge |
| metaphor | a type of figurative language in which two unlike things are compared without using "like" or "as" |
| objective point of view | a point of view where the author presents the action without comment or emotion and without revealing the characters' thoughts |
| opinion | a personal belief that be proven true |
| opinion piece | piece of writing where the author gives his belief about something and tried to persuade others to agree |
| paraphrase | to restate another person's writing or speech in your own words |
| past perfect tense | a verb tense that describes an action in the past, such as 'We HAD GONE to church there several times' |
| personal narrative | genre of writing in which the author describes a personal experience |
| personification | when something that is not human is given human qualities, such as feelings and actions |
| plot | series of events tat include a character's actions, a conflict and a resolution |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| precise language | words and phrases that are clear, specific and descriptive |
| prefix | an affix added to the beginning of a word that changes its meaning |
| preposition | a word that links a noun or pronoun to other words in a sentence, such as above, against,before, for, up, down |
| present perfect tense | verb tense that describes an action that began in the pas, such as 'I HAVE GONE to school every day this year' |
| resolution | the conclusion of a story, which takes place after the climax when the conflict has been resolved |
| response to literature | a type of writing where the author describes and analyzes some aspect of a literary work |
| rising action | the growing seriousness of a conflict in a story |
| root word | the base, or main part, of a word that carries its basic meaning |
| scene | one section of a play or drama |
| sensory language | language that appeals to a reader's sense of sight, hearing, taste, smell or touch |
| setting | the time and place when and where a story happens |
| simile | when two unlike things are compared using 'like' or 'as' |
| source | a book, web site, or reference material to use when doing research |
| stanza | a section of a poem |
| suffix | an affix added to the end of a word that changes its meaning |
| summarize | to retell the main points or plot of a text in your own words |
| synonyms | words that have the same meaning |
| theme | the message or truth about life that a story suggests |
| third person limited point of view | text in which narrator is not a character in the story and uses he, she, or it; the narrator knows only one character's thoughts or feelings |
| third person omniscient point of view | text in which narrator is not a character in the story, and knows the feelings and thoughts of all characters ("all-knowing") |
| topic | the subject, or main idea, of a text |
| transitional words | words that indicate shifts between sentences or paragraphs (such as NEXT, FINALLY, HOWEVER) |
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mrswaibel
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