4th Grade SC Ready ELA Vocabulary

A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.

• Plot

• Description

• Idiom

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

"This bag weighs a ton!" This exaggeration is an example of a...

• Hyperbole

• Fiction

• Simile

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

An event in the story that is the reason why other things happen

• Sequence

• Mood

• Cause

• Effect

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

A description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

• Imagery

• Simile

• Compare

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

The message of the story. It is universal to everyone.

• Compare

• Theme

• Setting

• Trait

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

The events that occur in the story. The beginning, middle and end.

• Theme

• Trait

• Plot

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

To say how something is similar to something else

• Contrast

• Theme

• Conclusion

• Compare

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

What happens as a result of the cause.

• Metaphor

• Fiction

• Cause

• Effect

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

An idea or story that is believed by many people but that is not true.

• Myth

• Idiom

• Nonfiction

• Fairy Tale

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.

• Trait

• Main Idea

• Setting

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D