ELA Vocab Review

Words taken directly from the text to support an idea.

• Genre

• Central Idea

• Text Evidence

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

A guess made based on background knowledge and information from the text.

• Exposition

• Mood

• Onomatopoeia

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A general overview of what a text or section of text is about

• Central Idea

• Fiction

• Internal Conflict

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

A brief retelling of the major events, individuals, and ideas in a text or section of text.

• Compare

• Nonfiction

• Summary

• Protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

The character telling the story.

• topic

• narrator

• genre

• audience

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

To identify similarities between two or more things

• compare

• contrast

• tone

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the time and place of a story

• plot

• characters

• setting

• perspective

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

the message about life that a writer tries to convey in his or her story

• tone

• mood

• central idea

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.8.2

the speaker's or narrator's attitude towards the subject

• tone

• perspective

• setting

• characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

giving human traits to an animal or non-living object

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5