ELA Vocab

Plot is a part of everything that is written (plays, novels, movie scripts, ect.)

Plot is....

• just a small part of what happens in writing

• not really a big deal at all. Is it even a thing?

• the main events devised and written and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence

• writing that has something to it

Theme is mentioned a lot. What is it? (2 answers)

• the life lesson, author's message, or moral of a story

• something that is the same as the central idea

• can only be expressed in one senence

• the subject of a talk or piece of writing that is not directly stated. Inferences need to be made to determine it

Refers to what the text is mainly about and is summed up in one sentence.

• Plot

• Central Idea

• Text Features

• Theme

What the character or narrator telling the story can see (his or her persepective).

• third person perspective

• talking narrator

• point of view

• first person perspective

Text that is different from the main work. Can be in both fiction and nonfiction. They include: headings, subheadings, index, glossary, photos, captions, timelines, and table of contents.

• Text Extras

• Text Features

• Extra things

• they all just have different names

Figurative Language is a type of language used by writers to move beyond the literal meaning of a phrase and add special effects to writing. These include:

• Hyperbole, metaphor, simile, omomatpoeia, personification, idiom

• similar words, metacognition, hyperactivity in writing

• people things, hyper words, sound words

• hyper bollocks, homophones, palindromes

This is the author's attitude toward the topic and is expressed in the words and details used

• timing

• tone

• theme

• point of view

Putting information into your own words

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Paraphrasing

• Claim

This is the art of influence and involves persuading someone. It includes logos, ethos, and pathos.

• metaphor

• Rhetoric

• It's just known as logos, ethos, and pathos. It all depends on the type of persuasion being used.

• context clues

A comparison that does NOT use like or as.

• simile

• idiom

• metaphor

• personification