Middle School ELA Academic Vocabulary

The most important idea in a text (main idea)

Point of View that is told from the "you" perspective

The main part of a word

Where and when a story takes place

The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve

Point of View that uses the pronouns I, me, my

To restate the main points of a text

The solution to the problem or the part of the plot that takes place after the climax

To look for differences

The series of related events that build toward the climax of a story

A view that someone takes on a certain issue based on a personal judgement

The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved

Who produced this movie?

The person who tells a story

A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as

The main reason an author has for writing a text. (to explain, express, inform, or persuade)

The result of a cause

The dictionary definition of a word

To look for similarities

The central message of a text

The emotion or judgement that a word expresses

Point of View when you know the thoughts and feelings of more than one character

A word that is used in place of a noun

Something that brings about an effect or a result

An educated guess based on evidence in a text and what you already know

Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text

How a text is organized, such as sequence, cause and effect, or compare and contrast

A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman

A person, animal or other creature that takes part in the action of a story or poem

Point of View told by a narrator and you only know the thoughts and feelings of one character