1st 9 Weeks ELAR Review

Match the following

• The author’s

  main idea

• author’s purpose

• To separate or break into parts and examine

• alliteration

• A force working against the main character,

  usually another character

   

• antagonist

• Repetition of a sound at the beginning of a word

  “Silly Sarah Sue Sang"

   

• analyze

• The reason why the author wrote the text.

  To inform, To persuade,

  or To entertain

• author’s message

Match the following

• Information that is essential

  to understanding a situation

  or problem (AKA prior knowledge).

• biography

• The reason why the author wrote the text.

  To inform, To persuade,

  or To entertain

• background knowledge

• True account of a

  person’s life, written by

  someone else.

• caption

• An account of a person’s life written by that person.

• autobiography

• Provides information

  about a graphic aid

• author’s purpose

Match the following

• Identify the similarities and differences of two or more subjects

• climax

• A strategy that helps readers understand or make clear what they are reading

• compare/contrast

• The point of greatest interest in the story

• Character

• The qualities shown

  by a character

• clarify (asking questions before/during/after reading)

• The people, animals, or things that are the main focus of a story.

• character trait

Match the following

• Words or phrases surrounding a word that provide hints about the word’s meaning

• connotative

• Arrive at a judgment or opinion by reasoning (AKA make an inference).

• conflict

• A statement of belief based on evidence, experience and reasoning 

• conclude

• Word meanings that suggest something other than their literal meaning

• conclusion

• struggle between 2 forces (internal-within the character, external-outside of the character)

• context clue

Match the following

• Help to cause or bring about.

• description

• Clearly show the existence or truth by giving proof or evidence.

   

• demonstrate

• A drawing intended to explain how something works.

• contribute

• Helps the reader to

  picture what is happening

• convey

• To make known

  or express

• diagram

Match the following

• A short piece from a film, broadcast, piece of music, or writing

• excerpt

• Stated clearly

  and in detail

• implicit

• not stated clearly or in detail (must be inferred by the reader)

• explicit

• Written conversation between two or more characters

• elaboration

• Developing in complex and thorough detail.

• dialogue

Match the following

• A conflict that involves a character that struggles against a force outside of himself or herself

• fiction

• Beginning of a plot where the setting and main characters are introduced

• fact

• the story begins to draw to a close & is created by how the main character responds to the climax

• external conflict

• Can be proven or

  verified as true

• falling action

• Writing that tells an imaginary story

• exposition

Match the following

• Words that may

  not literally mean

  what they say

• folktale

• A scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in a time earlier than the main story.

• figurative language

• Occurs when the author provides hints that suggest future events in a story

• figure of speech

• Language used in a symbolic or nonliteral sense.

• foreshadowing

• A story that has been passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth

• flashback

Match the following

• To point out or

  bring to attention

• identify

• Refers to a category in which a work of literature is classified

• genre

• To make clear by describing so the reader can picture it

• idiom

• A group of words that’s meaning is different from the ordinary meaning of the word or phrase

• illustrate

• Great exaggeration used to emphasize a point

• hyperbole

Match the following

• A conflict that occurs within a character

• include

• a logical guess based on your prior knowledge and clues from the text

• internal conflict

• To make part

  of the whole

• imagery

• To point out

  or show

• indicate

• Words or phrases that

  help appeal to the

  reader’s five senses

• inference