ELA Middle School Test Prep

A piece of information that is used to support the main idea.

Facts or details that back up the main idea, theme or thesis.

Person, book, document, website or record that provides information

Where conflict and suspense build

Facts or details that back up a main idea, theme, or thesis

A feeling that an author wants readers to have while reading.

Perspective from which a story is told

Relationship between 2 or more events in which one event brings about another.

The main problem in a literary work

Strengthen or prove an argument, analysis or by providing facts, details examples & other info.

The reason for creating written work?

A context clue used to help the reader infer the meaning of a vocab or gives supporting details

Expression of an authors personal believe, cannot be proven true or false?

Gives information encouraging you to agree with the author

POV in which the narrator is outside the story, reveals the thoughts of only one character

The writer's opinion or way of seeing a story?

Conflict is over!

A verb that means to separate a whole into its parts and then look more closely at those parts?

Time & place in which a literary work happens

Wraps up a piece of writing and reminds readers of the main idea

The process of ordering, structuring and presenting information in the text.

Method focuses on an issue, then gives a possible remedy for the issue

Conflict is getting worked out and tensions have lessened.

A piece of information used to support a main idea.

Restate a passage or text briefly

Taking something that you read & putting it together with something that you already know.

Where conflict and tension reach a peak

Series of events that happen in a literary work?

When a piece of writing is meant to amuse its reader?

Method of relating how 2 or more elements or texts are different.

An arrangement of events in the order in which they occur

Gives facts, background and other kinds of knowledge about a subject

A Statement that can be proved to be true or false.

POV where the narrator relates the inner thoughts & feelings of every character

The POV usually found when reading a recipe or directions

The MEssage that is meant for you within an author's story?

They, It, Them pronouns will be found when using this point of view

This point of view uses pronouns I, Me, We, and Us

Group of steps that are in order

Used when details are organized by degree of impact