English Language Arts Vocabulary

action word

Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, feeling are

hyperbole

Tells location or place

Literature is

A phrase used to compare two unlike objects using like or as.

Central or main idea in a story

"He is as big as a whale" is also an example of

A pronoun takes the place of a

We, you, us, they, her, them, it are all examples of...

You have written a narrative in this class.

A person or animal in a story

A word that describes something

A phrase used to compare two unlike objects: "He is a lion."

fiction means true

Noun

"He was as big as a whale" is an example of...

The setting in a story is

Sensory language uses

Time and Place

adjectives are

A _________ tells the story

An informational piece of writing is

under, over, on, near, in front of, behind, are all

fiction

The most important character in a story is the

A story is a

A biography is

"She is a flower" is a