Vocabulary for FSA ELA

You can use context clues to figure out the meaning of words but not phrases.

Denotation means the same thing as ***.

The plan of a story is called ***.

This structure organizes events by when they happened.

Hyperbole is extreme exaggeration that is often used for ***.

What type of figurative language is: "Our old house groaned and whined during the hurricane."

Which of the following is not always a part of a dictionary entry?

A text that is factual and we can learn from is ***.

The feelings or emotions associated with a word are called ***.

Would you use a dictionary or a thesaurus to find another word for "care"?

The structure of a piece of writing doesn't affect its meaning much.

What two things does a setting describe?

What is the text around a word called that helps a reader understand the meaning?

The part of the story where the main character puts his plan in place.

Tone is the way an author creates an attitude or mood in a piece of writing.

You can use context clues to better understand unfamiliar words in both fiction and nonfiction.

Words that mean the same are called ***.

When you have to figure out what the author is suggesting from the text, this is called an ***.

Compare and contrast means to look at ***.

What is a brief account or review of something called?

The main character, the problem, and the setting are established in the ***.

What is a comparison called that used "like" or "as"?

Different kinds of literature are divided into ***.

An analogy compares two or more sets of things that have nothing in common.

Words that imitate sounds are examples of ***.

This is text evidence that is directly stated.

What is the subject or the big idea of a piece of writing?

What is the figure of speech where something that isn't human has human qualities?

An author's perspective refers to his/her ***.

Theme can't be determined by looking at the details.