ELA Vocabulary : TRUE or FALSE

CHARACTER: Persons represented in a dramatic or narrative work

PLAGIARISM: taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own

EXPLAIN: To make clear by describing in more detail or giving relevant facts or ideas

INFERENCE: A conclusion logically drawn from presented information

NARRATIVE: Writing which provides facts and describes ideas in more detail

FORMAL STYLE: A professional style of writing used to inform an audience: No - I, Me, We

COMPARE: Indicates differences

MOOD: Emotion(s) expressed by an author

INFORMATIONAL: Oral/written communication that develops or debates a topic in a persuasive way

CONNOTATION: feeling associated with a word (e.g., home may suggest warmth or family)

ANALYZE: To break material down into parts and determine how the parts connect to one another

SYNONYM: A word having the opposite meaning of another word (e.g., cool : warm).cool : warm).

FIGURATIVE: Taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory

IDIOM: Phrases with nonliteral meanings (e.g., The kids clean their rooms once in a blue moon.)

METAPHOR: comparison between two items, without using like or as

FACT: A personal view, attitude, or appraisal

PERSONIFICATION:an inanimate object has human attributes (The sun smiled down on us.)

THIRD PERSON: A narrator who is a participant in the story and uses the pronouns I and me

MAIN IDEA: The chief topic of a passage expressed or implied in a word or phrase

ALLUSION: Reference in a text to a literary or historical person, place, or event.

MYTH: A narrative of ancient origin that a particular cultural group believes to be a true

ARGUMENT: Writing that represents knowledge from research and is meant to provide more detail

SETTING: The place, historical time, and social circumstances in which action occurs in a story

FORESHADOWING: disrupting the order of events in a story by shifting to an earlier time

SUMMARIZE: Condensing a text to its major points

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: Words or expressions with meaning other than the literal interpretation

THEME: A lesson or message in a literary work

GENRE: A type or class of literature (e.g., fiction, drama, poetry)

NARRATOR: The person in a fictional narrative who relates the account or story

POINT OF VIEW: first-, second- or third-person narration

CENTRAL IDEA: The chief topic of a passage expressed or implied in a word or phrase

CLAIM: An arguable statement, revealing a person's side or opinion

SIMILE: comparison between two different things indicated by "like" or "as"

COUNTERCLAIM: Arguable statements intended to dispute other claims

ALLITERATION: The repetition of speech sounds in words (e.g.,Peter Piper's pickled peppers).

DENOTATION: The general or literal meaning of a word (home is a place where a person lives)

AUDIENCE: The intended target of a message, such as adolescents for young adult literature

CONTRAST: To detect similarities between two or more ideas and other elements from a text

AUTHOR'S PURPOSE: The reason for which an author writes, as to entertain, inform, or persuade

EVIDENCE: Facts (paraphrase or quotes) that provide support for claims or analysis of a text

QUOTE: To translate from the original text into one's own words

PLOT: The events and actions of a narrative work