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ELA Vocabulary
ELA Vocabulary Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dialogue | Converstaions between two or more people |
| Claim | Argument for an opinion; can be proven with evidence |
| Audience | A group of people who watch or listen to a story, movie, or play |
| Acts | A way that the playwright breaks up the action of a play |
| Synthesize | Using information in order to develop new ideas about a topic or draw conclusions about it; putting the pieces together |
| Relationship | The ways in which the charcters are connected |
| Timeline | A line that shows the events and time that something happened |
| Argumentative | An essay in which the writer takes a position on a topic(FOR or AGAINST); tries to presuade the reader to support thier point of view |
| Idiom | A phrase that means something different from its acutal words Example: it's raining cats and dogs |
| Lyrical Poem | Poem that expresses the poets emtions or feelings; has a rhythm or beat |
| Genre | A style of literature used to classify works Example: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Fables, Legends, etc. |
| Paraphrase | Express the meaning of; give in your own words |
| Charts and Graphs | An organized way to present mathematical pieces of information |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem that look like a paragraph |
| Humorous | A poem that is funny or comical |
| Character Trait | How the character looks, what they say, do , think, and feel |
| 1st person Point of View | The main charcter is the narrator and is telling the story |
| 3rd person Point of View | Someone who is not a character is telling the story |
| Imagery/Mental Image | Words that paint a picture in the reader's mind |
| Resolution/Solution | How the problem in the story is solved or resolved |
| Compare | How people, places, things,or ideas in a story are similar or alike |
| Contrast | How people, places, things,or ideas in a story are different |
| Chronological Order | Sequencing the events of a story in the order that they occurred |
| Dictionary | A book used to find the meaning of words, how to spell them, and how they are pronounced |
| Synonym | Words that mean the same thing |
| Narrative Poetry | A type of poem that tells a story |
| Climax | The turning point in the story where the problem or conflict reaches its peak |
| Antonym | Words that have opposite meanings |
| Author's Purpose | The reason the author wrote the text |
| Sensory Detail | Details wittin a story that describe what is seen, heard, felt, smelled, and tasted |
| Free Verse | A poem that does not rhyme or have a pattern |
| Rhyme | Words that sound the same, often the last word in each line of a poem |
| Diagram | Illustrations and photograpghs with labels naming its parts |
| Title | The name of the text, passage, or essay |
| Narrator | Person or characrter telling the story |
| Illustration | Pictures that a drawn |
| Caption | A short explanation or decription of a picture located near the picture |
| Bold Print | Print that is darker or brighter than the rest of the sentence |
| Photograph | A picture taken with a camera |
| Italics | Slanting new or important words so that they stand out in the text |
| Effect | What happened; the result |
| Cause | The reason why something happened |
| Prediction | Using the author's clues to determine what will happen next in the story |
| Facts | A statement you can prive to be either ture or false |
| Text Feature | Infromation that helps the reader understand what they are reading and gives the reader extra infromation |
| Summary | To retell the main events of a story using your own words |
| Main Idea/Central Idea | What the text is mostly about |
| Detail/ Supporting Detail | Specific information that supports and relates to the main idea |
| Root Word/Base Word | A word that carries meaning and can stand on its own without any added word parts |
| Context Clues | Clues that readers use to find the meaning of unknown words |
| Multiple-Meaning Word | A word with several different meanings |
| Sequence | Putting events of a story in order which they happened |
| Setting | The time, place, and environment where a story occurs |
| Theme | The message or lesson that the author wants yout to take away from the story |
| Suffix | Added to the end of a base word to change its meaning |
| Prefix | Added to the beginning of a base word to change its meaning |
| Problem | Something that a character in the story wants to change, fix, or figure out |
| Plot | Is made up of the problem, important events, and the resolution |
| Character | The people, animals, or creatures in a story |
| Solution | The way a problem is solved or fixed |
| Poetry | A type of writing that appeals to the senses and feelings, has lines and stanzas, it may rhyme or tell story |
| Nonfiction | A story that is real and based on true facts |
| Autobiograpghy | A story about someone's life written by that person |
| Biography | A story about someone's life written by someone else |
| Draw Conclusions/Conclude | A decision or opinion you reach based on the infromation from the story(figuring out what characters will do or say next) |
| Inference | Using clues from the story plus what you already know, to figure out what is NOT being said |
| Fiction | A story made-up by an author and it is not ture |
| Text Evidence | Proving a point or an answer by finding evidence from the story to support it |
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ms.palmer
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