Vocabulary ELAR terms 4th grade

What is figurative language?

• It is a language that’s intended to create an image, association, or other effect in the mind of the listener or reader that goes beyond the literal meaning or expected use of the words involved.

• It's having exactly the same meaning as the basic or original meaning of a word or expression

• It is a reference source in print or electronic form that contains words, usually arranged alphabetically, along with information about their meanings,

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

metaphor

• is a way of using words to compare or suggest a likeness between two different things or ideas that are not literally the same

• is the process of giving human traits or characteristics to a non-human object or idea

• is an intentional, obvious exaggeration

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

personification

• is an intentional, obvious exaggeration

• the process of giving human traits or characteristics to a non-human object or idea

• a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

simile

• a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as

• form of a metaphor in that human characteristics are attributed to nonhuman things.

• words that are descriptive and provide a sensory effect and vivid imagery in terms of sight and sound.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

theme

• is the underlying message that the author is trying to convey to the reader

• is an occurrence in which a character remembers an earlier event that happened before the current point of the story.

• is a literary technique in which a writer gives hints as to what is coming later in the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

myth

• are stories that often have religious origins that provide explanations for natural phenomena, offer moral insight, and include supernatural beings

• is a short, concise story that tells a moral lesson. They tend to use personified animals or objects as characters

• fictional story that exaggerates the truth

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

drama

• a written work that tells a story through action and speech and is meant to be acted on a stage

• a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands

• a literary device referring to writing that is structured in a grammatical way, with words and phrases that build sentences and paragraphs

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D

scenes

• an instruction in the text of a play, especially one indicating the movement, position, or tone of an actor, or the sound effects and lighting

• the place where an action or event, real or imaginary, occurs the setting for the action of a play, or novel

• conversation between two or more people as a feature of a book, play, or movie

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

what is the climax of a story

• is a struggle between opposing forces in which characters must act to confront those forces

• is a literary device that alludes to a later point in the story

• is the story's central turning point—the moment of peak tension or conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

falling action in a story

• is part of the plot in a series of relevant incidents that create suspense, interest, and tension in a story

• is a literary device in a story that provides some background information on events, situations, or a character's past history

• the tension and conflict start to resolve and the story moves toward its conclusion or resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5