QBA1 Language Arts Review

Clues in a text that hint at events that will happen in the future.

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. (She sells seashells by the seashore)

The time and place of the action in a story.

a logical guess based on evidence presented in a text. 

A brief retelling of the main points of a story or text

The ideas or feelings associated with a word.

Plot element that introduces characters and setting, presents the conflict

Who the author is directing the writing towards.

Person, place, or object that stands for something beyond and greater than itself.

The attitude an author has toward the subject they are writing about.

The mental or emotional struggle that occurs within a character.

Traditional story that attempts to explain human nature, creation, or nature and has a moral.

A group of lines in a poem

The reasons for the character’s behavior

The main unit of a poem.

How words are arranged on the page in a poem

Stories passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation.  

Growing tension and excitement of a story felt by the reader.

Video discussion between an interviewer and interviewee

Words with similar meanings.

Struggle between a literary character and an outside force such as nature or another character

Word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

The point in the plot that shows the final outcome of the conflict

The struggle between opposing forces

A category or class of literature

A group of lines in a poem

A word part that came to English from an older language

The element of plot where the story begins to draw to a close

The element of plot that presents complications that intensify

The most important idea about a topic a writer conveys

A story that can be online, in print, or broadcast on television

Word part that appears at the beginning of a word or root.

Statement of belief or feeling

Qualities shown by the character.  May be inferred or directly stated by the author.

An opinion piece that usually appears in the opinion section of a newspaper

Story’s greatest moment of intensity, turning point where conflict is resolved

Comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as.

Central or main idea of a piece of writing.  Usually a message about life or human nature.

Type of literature in which words are carefully chosen and arranged to create certain effects.

The sequence of events that make up a story