ELA Vocabulary practice

Charts, graphs, photographs, bold words and captions are types of __________.

• Text structures

• Text features

• Themes

• Characteristics

The way the author organizes the text is called _____________.

• Figurative language

• Sequencing

• Text structure

When a phrase gives human characteristics to a non-human object, it is called __________.

• hyperbole

• personification

• theme

• plot

A phrase that has another meaning, such as "raining cats and dogs", is called ________.

• hyperbole

• idiom

• personification

• theme

When a phrase is over exaggerated in the text, it is called _______.

• personification

• hyperbole

• idiom

• plot

When the text compares two things not using "like" or "as".

• simile

• metaphor

• flashback

• compare and contrast

When the text compares to things using words like "like" or "as".

• idiom

• antonym

• simile

• metaphor

When the text has meanings that are not the literal meanings.

• idioms

• antonyms

• cental idea

• figurative language

What is it called when the author goes back in time during the story because of something that happened in the story.

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• description

• central idea

The information about an event was from research or talking to someone else.

• central idea

• flashback

• first-hand account

• second-hand account