ELA Bowl

ELA Bowl

By Mierra Reid

​This skill requires you to look back in the text for evidence to explain your answer.

Citing Textual Evidence

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This text structure helps readers visualize the who, what, when, where, why, and how in great detail.

By Mierra Reid

Description

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​What graphic organizer is used with description?

Concept Map/ Bubble Map

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​The BAD guy in the story

Antagonist

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​The sequence of events that happen in a story

Plot

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​Normal words that have a special meaning known to almost everyone

Idioms

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​Signal Words:

Appears to be

In front of

Such as

For example

For instance ​

Description

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​The LESSON or MORAL of the story

Theme

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​When objects and/or animals are given human like qualities

Personification

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​To push, to move forward

Propel

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​Statements that are exaggerated

Hyperbole

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​To look at closely, to examine with great detail

Analyze

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​The dictionary's meaning for a word

Denotation

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​Hints that are left by the author in a sentence to determine the meaning of unknown words

Context Clues

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​The GOOD guy in the story

Protagonist

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​A person animal or thing in a story

Character

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​A story, or play performed before people

Drama

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​Signal Words:

Finally

Before

Following

Immediately ​

Sequence/Chronological Order

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​The story tells the thoughts and feelings of EVERY character in the story

Third-Person Omniscient

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​This text structure introduces a circumstance that needs a solution

Problem and Solution

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Things that are proven true

Facts

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​The most exciting part of the story

Climax

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​Uses key words such as I, me, mine, we

First Person

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​What is the tip that helps you find the summary?

The 5 W'S

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​Signal Words:

In common

In comparison

Similar to

different from

instead of

as well as​

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Compare and Contrast

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​Uses key words such as he, she, it, and they

Third-person Objective

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​The beginning of the story

Exposition

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​The emotional meaning of a word

Connotation

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​Events between the Climax and the Resolution

Falling Action

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​Signal Words:

Resolved

Conflict

Trouble

Answer

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Problem and Solution

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​The story tells the thoughts and feelings of ONE character

Third-Person Limited

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​This text structure presents events from the beginning to the end

Sequence/ Chronological Order

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​Events between the EXPOSITION and the CLIMAX

Rising Action

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​The conversation between 2 people

Dialogue

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​Signal Words

As a result of

Because, therefore

Caused by

For this reason

So that​

Cause and Effect

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​Uses key words such as You, and Your

Second Person

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​Authors uses this text structure to describe things that are similar and different.

Compare and Contrast

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​What is the graphic organizer is used for Chronological Order?

Timeline

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​Information that is not conveyed by the author in which one has to make a guess

Inference

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​2 Part Question:

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Why are text structures used in literature?​

1. To organize the text

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2. To comprehend the text

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​This text structure tells what happens and why it happens

Cause and Effect

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​Your own thoughts, and judgments, not based on facts

Opinion

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​A series of words with the same CONSONANT SOUND

Alliteration

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​The recalling and retelling of the most important events of a story in order

Summary/ Summarizing

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​The atmosphere of the story, is created by the setting, attitude, and descriptions

Mood

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​Comparing 2 things using "Like" or "As"

Simile

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​The writers attitude towards a subject

Tone

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​How many text structures are there?

5 Text Structures

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​Words associated with its sound

Onomatopoeia

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​The problem in the story

Conflict

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​Comparing 2 things without using "Like" or "As"

Metaphore

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