ELA Practice

The time and place where a story happens.

• Character

• Theme

• Plot

• Setting

The important idea or lesson repeated throughout the text.

• Plot

• Dictionary

• Theme

• Glossary

To look for similiarities

• Contrast

• Central Message

• Cause and effect

• Compare

To look for differences

• Contrast

• Inference

• Compare

• Main idea

A person in a story

• setting

• plot

• central message

• character

What does the theme of a text mean?

• The lesson or moral of the text.

• The most important idea.

• A summary of the text.

• The setting of the text.

A character who struggles with an INTERNAL conflict ____.

• has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

• has problems with another character

A character who struggles with an EXTERNAL conflict ____.

• has problems with his/her own feelings/thoughts

• has problems with another character or force in the story

an unexpected twist of events

• theme

• irony

• flashback

• symbol

an object that represents something unlike itself

• theme

• symbol

• flashback

• conflict