Ms. Woods Copy of MAP TEST PREP ELA

Giving human characteristics to an idea, object, or animal

Example:  Nine new nickels are needed now.

A type of literature that is made up of sentences, paragraphs, and sometimes chapters

Reference that gives synonyms for words.  Helpful when writing.

The part of the story when various problems start to happen

The angle from which a story is told.

The author's attitude or feeling.

Nonfiction text structure that includes an issue and ways of dealing with it.

The darkness wrapped its arms around me.

A reference that gives definitions, pronunciations, and context clues

A word that sounds like what it is describing.  A sound effect

diagrams, charts, graphs, sidebars, glossary, cutaway diagrams, photos, captions, headings, 

The person or thing fighting against the hero.  Another name for villain.

the people (or people like characters) in a story.

A genre.  The story of a real person's life written by another person.

It's raining cats and dogs.

An expressive form of writing that uses rhyme, meter with sound devices and figurative language

A concrete or real object used to represent an idea.  (ex. heart stands for love)

The hero or main character of the story

Hints or clues about what is going to happen in the story

What text structure does a scientist conducting an experiment make us think of?

A familiar phrase or saying (common expression) that means something other than what it says.

A genre that blends the past with fiction.  May include events, people, and facts from the past

What text structure does a shopper make us think of?

The milk was as white as snow

Turning point in the action in the story.  Most exciting part.

When the author goes back in the story to an earlier time.

What text structure does a reporter make us think of?

When the character solves the problem in the story

Using words to create a special effect

great exaggeration

Nonfiction text structure that gives similarities and differences.

A saying that gives advice          Ex. Don't judge a book by its cover.  

I'm so hungry I could eat an elephant.

A written work in the form of poetry, prose, or drama

Reference that is at the back of a book and lists pages where a term can be found

A genre.  A made up story that could happen in real life.

A genre.  May involve time travel, super powers, machines or animals with human like qualities

Nonfiction that uses first person (I, me...) account to express feelings, news, events.

The person telling the story is the main character.  Contains words like "I", "me", "we"

My hands are icicles

Problem the main character faces  (man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. man, man vs. self)

The text structure that many authors use when writing a biography.

What text structure does a car mechanic make us think of?

Genre of fiction that may have unreal worlds, farfetched characters, & impossible situiations

The person or character who is telling the story

The events (or happenings) in a story

What text structure does a chef make us think of?

A genre.  A story of a real person's life written by that person

Talking between characters in a story

The part of the story that follows the climax

A genre.  Strange events happen.  The main character looks for clues to solve problems

It is a genre.  It is fiction and has a moral or teaches a lesson. 

The text structure that authors use when they want to tell events in time order.

A type of literature organized by lines and stanzas

Catchy and memorable descriptive text and illustration.  Designed to sell or persuade.

Someone from outside the story is telling it.  Uses the words "he", "she", "they"

Contains events that actually happened.  Has proven facts or information.

The parts an author puts in/with text that helps the reader understand.

The telling of an event or period of time in a real person's life.

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words

Murmur, creak, drip, pop, zip, wheeze

The feeling a reader gets from a story

Time and place.  Where and when a story takes place.

A type of literature that is written in dialogue and has acts and scenes

Comparing two things using like or as

The way an author organizes text

The subject or message being written about.

Comparing two things without using like or as.