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ELA CRCT vocabulary
ELA academic content vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Simile | comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | Comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as" |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds; same beginning letter |
| Idiom | an expression that has a meaning different from the meaning of its individual words; literal interpretation is silly |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to non-human things. |
| Hyperbole | extreme exaggeration |
| Onomatopoeia | words that mimic sounds that you hear. |
| Sound Imagery | onomatopoeia |
| Symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas using objects or characters to represent something else |
| Author's purpose | why the author wrote the text |
| theme | central idea or purpose; lesson from the text |
| point of view | perspective from which a story is being told |
| poetry | literary work expressing feelings/ideas with style/rhythm |
| flashback | vivid memory of past experience |
| mood | the way the text makes you feel |
| myth | explains the history/origin of a people |
| figurative language | language/words that create special effects or feelings |
| Imagery | figurative language and descriptions used to produce mental images |
| Genre | categories of writing |
| Narrative | tells a story with a beginning, middle and end |
| Persuasive | convincing someone to do or believe in something |
| organizational features | the way text is arranged |
| speaker's voice | voice/tone of the author |
| synthesize | combine information |
| simple sentence | a subject and a verb |
| complex sentence | one independent and at least one dependent clause |
| compound sentence | more than one independent clause separated by a conjunction |
| conjunction | a word that joins sentences, clauses, phrases or words |
| antagonist | opposes main character; a villain |
| protagonist | main character; the hero |
| external conflict | challenge posed by outside forces |
| internal conflict | inner turmoil, not visible to others |
| tone | feeling or mood of a story |
| excerpt | part taken from a larger work |
| classify | to arrange, put in order |
| summarize | to cover main points briefly |
| dialogue | conversation between characters |
| synonym | similar |
| antonym | opposite |
| rhyme scheme | arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem |
| context | in relation to |
| analyze | to study individual parts in relation to the whole |
| plot | sequence of events; the main story |
| sequence | the order in which things occur |
| independent clause | a simple sentence, subject & verb |
| dependent clause | contains a subject & a verb but does not express a complete thought |
| conflict | a disagreement or problem within a book |
| setting | the time, place and location of a story or play |
| resolution | the point in the story when the conflict is resolved |
| characters | a person in a story, movie or play |
| climax | the turning point in a story |
| theme | the message about life or human nature that is conveyed by a literary work |
| predict | using what you know to draw a conclusion about what may happen |
| foreshadow | when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story |
| static character | characters who change little, if at all |
| dynamic character | characters who who change significantly |
| inference | a logical guess or conclusion based on evidence |
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jennymorgan
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