ELA Vocabulary Review Terms

What is the author's purpose if they are telling you a story that makes you feel something?

What are two words that mean the same or almost the same thing called?

Where can you find the chapter titles and page numbers in a book?

What would be the author's purpose if they are trying to get you to agree with them?

What genre of fiction is considered a performance?

What is giving human qualities to something that is not human?

What is hyperbole?

What strategy should you use to answer a question with a paragraph using details to support it?

What type of text organization puts details in the order in which they happen?

Using 3 or more words in a line with the same beginning sound is?

What is the CLIMAX of a story?

How do you determine someone's character traits?

What is the theme of a story?

What do you do if you need to contrast?

What are the letters called that you can add to the beginning of a word to change its meaning?

What are the events in the story called that lead to the climax?

What is another word for the PROBLEM in a story?

What type of text organization gives your information about a specific subject?

What do you do if you need to compare?

What is the purpose of supporting details?

What type of text organization tells you about 2 topics and how they are the same & different?

What do you call a story that is true and real?

What do you do if you have a question about the passage you just read?

What is an idiom?

What would be the author's purpose if they are giving you a lot of facts?

What are the events in the story called that lead to the resolution?

What point of view is a story told in if the person telling the story is part of the story?

What point of view is a story told in if the narrator is NOT part of the story?

What is a word called once you take off any prefixes or suffixes?

What is another word for the resolution of a story?

A Venn Diagram is a type of graphic organizer used to compare & contrast.

Where do you look in a textbook to find the definition of a word?

Where do you look if you want to find information out about a picture in a nonfiction book?

Details from the story + your own knowledge =

Something that can be proven true is a?

What do you use to find out the meaning of a word that you don't know?

What is a comparison of 2 things with out using like or as?

How should you support an openended response?

What is the WHEN and THE WHERE of a story called?

What type of text organization tells you about a problem, then offers solutions to the problem?

What type of text organization gives you an event and then tells why it happened?

What is onomatopoeia?

What do you call the people or animals that are in a story?

What are the exact words someone says called?

What are the letters called that you add to the end of a word to change its meaning?

What do you include if you have to summarize a passage?

What are two words with opposite meaning called?

What is a paragraph called in a poem?

What is it called when you compare two things using like or as?

What the story is mainly about is called the ______________?

What are the events of a story called?

What do you call a story that is make up by the author

Something that is someone's thoughts and feelings is?