ELA Vocabulary 1-20

This is something that is good, helpful, or an advantage.

• disadvantage

• benefit

• detriment

• drawback

This is a comparison of two unlike items without using like or as.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

This is what a passage, selection, or story is mostly about.

• theme

• main idea

• evidence

• cause

This is the feeling you get from reading a story. This is the way the passage makes you feel.

• climax

• main idea

• theme

• mood

Given human qualities to non-human objects.

• hyperbole

• personification

• inference

• simile

This is the event which makes something happen

• effect

• sequence

• cause

• event

To arrive at a decision or judgment based on information

• drawing conclusion

• fact

• prediction

• setting

A message or lesson in a story

• simile

• fact

• theme

• plot

This is the reason the author wrote the passage. It may be to entertain, to inform, or to persuade.

• prediction

• point of view

• author's purpose

• mood

Where and when a story takes place.

• plot

• climax

• setting

• theme