ELA Terms Practice

The dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word is it's ____________.

_____________ means to make something easier to understand.

When a narrator who addresses a story to someone he or she calls "you", it is in __________ point of view.

The motive or reason that an author writes is the ...

An affix attached before a root word (like, dis-connect) is the _____

What are speech sounds repeating at the beginning of nearby words called?

The basic part of a word that carries the meaning and that cannot be further broken down without loss of identity is the

What is a position from which something is considered, seen, or evaluated?

What word indicates differences between two or more ideas, objects, or other elements from text?

To detect similarities between two or more ideas, objects, concepts, or other elements from a text is to...

An concept broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work, usually teaching a moral or lesson, is the

To make judgments about the value of ideas, purposes, or claims of a text based on criteria and standards is to ______

What is a personal view, attitude, or appraisal called?

What is the subdivision of acts in a play in which there is no change of place or time?

Words having a similar or the same meaning (cold : chilly) are ______.

Which word means to break something down into parts to increase understanding and determine how items relate?

A recognizable pattern in the beat of the accents in a stream of speech sounds is the ______.

What is an arguable statement, or statement that can be argued?

A unit of rhythm; the recurrence, in regular units, in the sequence of speech sounds, usually in poetry is called

What is the type or class of literature called?

What are the events and action within a story called?

A mismatch between expectation and reality is called ____. (You save money for something but then it is bought for you)

The correction of writing, such as spelling and punctuation, in order to prepare materials for publication is to _____

The person in a fictional narrative who tells the account or story is the _______.

An affix attached to the end of a base or root word that changes the function of the word is a ________.

What is a grouping of lines of verse in a poem often set off by a space in the printed text called?

A story involving events, characters, and what the characters say and do is _______.

The chief topic of a passage expressed or implied in a word or phrase is it's ...

Mainly in literary texts, the perspective from which a story is told (as in first- or third-person narration)

Condensing a text to its general theme(s) and/or major points is to _________.

What is the general place, time, and circumstances in which action occurs in a story or play?

Text that expresses an idea, often using figurative language. The three common types are narrative, dramatic, and lyric

What is a comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as"?

What do we call the repetition of the last stressed vowel and syllable?

The structure of the action of a story in its chronological order is the __________.

What is the verbal interaction of characters called?

A narrator who is a participant in the story and uses the pronouns I and me is narrating in __________.

What is it called when the narrator is telling the story from an outside perspective (says he, she, they)?

When an object is spoken of as though it were having human characteristics the author is using _________.

The author's attitude reflected in words within a text is....

What are persons or personified objects represented in a movie, play, or narrative work?

A group of words containing both a subject and a predicate is a ________.

What is the relationship between new words, concepts, and ideas?

What is a word having the opposite meaning of another?

What's the positive or negative feeling associated with the meaning of a word ?

Facts, details, or other sources of information that provide support for claims that can be evaluated by others is ____.

Which is a type of comparison that has literal meanings applied to two different things?

What is a phrase that has a meaning different from the literal (like, The kids clean their rooms once in a blue moon.)

A conclusion, thought, or guess drawn from information that is shared is an _____

What are words that are being used in their most basic sense without metaphor or other figurative language.