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ELA Final Review
6th Grade ELA Keywords to Review for the Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |
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