NSCAS ELA Content Words #2

when and where a story takes place

• character

• plot

• setting

• problem

the series of events that take place. It's the action of the story

• setting

• plot

• problem

• solution

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind using "like" or "as"

• alliteration

• simile

• imagery

• idiom

the same letter or sound at the beginning connected words.

• alliteration

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• hyperbole

sound words

• idiom

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

vivid language that creates pictures in the readers mind

• imagery

• alliteration

• personification

• rhythm

giving human characteristics to something nonhuman

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• personification

• idiom

extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

• imagery

an expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but must be learned as a whole.

• simile

• alliteration

• rhythm

• idiom

Important pieces of information that support the main idea of a text.

• theme

• summarize

• key details

• illustrations