Language Arts Vocabulary

closely connected or related to; important to the topic

• analyze

• illustrate

• demonstrate

• relevant

speaking of something as if it were something else - doesn't use like or as.

• metaphor

• onomatopoeia

• simile

• noun

 the events in the story

• setting

• plot

• character

• falling action

the beginning of a story that introduces the setting, characters, and the conflict

• rising action

• resolution

• exposition

• title page

Who will win the NCAA tournament?

• Texas

• Duke

• Alabama

• Purdue

To examine something in detail in order to understand it 

• convey

• describe

• analyze

• personification

To make something more clear or visible by giving an example

• complain

• cloak

• mood

• illustrate

the “feeling”  a word gives; a commonly understood cultural or emotional association that any given word or phrase carries

• connotation

• denotation

• hyperbole

• rhyme scheme

To defend; to back up with reasoning and/or evidence 

• tone

• support

• synthesize

• jazzercise

To communicate an idea; to carry an idea or message across to the reader 

• convey

• theme

• relevant

• conflict