MAP TEST PREP ELA

Cat is to meow as dog is to bark

Using words to create a special effect

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

Murmur, creak, drip, pop, zip, wheeze

It's raining cats and dogs.

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

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

The darkness wrapped its arms around me.

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

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

Comparing two things using like or as

A type of literature organized by lines and stanzas

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

The author's attitude or feeling.

Talking between characters in a story

A saying that contains information about humans

A reference that gives definitions, pronunciations, and context clues

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

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

What text structure does a reporter make us think of?

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

great exaggeration

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

What text structure does a chef make us think of?

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

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

Comparing two things without using like or as.

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

The part of the story when various problems start to happen

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

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

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

What text structure does a shopper make us think of?

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

Comparison of two pairs that have the same relationship.  a is to b as c is to d

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

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

The events (or happenings) in a story

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

Giving human characteristics to an idea, object, or animal

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

The milk was as white as snow

The person or character who is telling the story

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

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

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

The subject or message being written about.

The angle from which a story is told.

A familiar phrase or saying that means something other than what it literally says.

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

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

My hands are icicles

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

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

When the character solves the problem in the story

The part of the story that follows the climax

The feeling a reader gets from a story

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

Reference that gives synonyms for words.  Helpful when writing.

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

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

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

Example:  Nine new nickels are needed now.

The way an author organizes text

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

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

The hero of the story

Nonfiction text structure that gives similarities and differences.

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

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

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

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