ELA/R Milestone Review

Passages that are stories, dramas, or poems.

• literary text

• inference

• theme

• summarize

To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the passage

• infer

• explicit

• theme

• summarize

idea or message is stated directly by the author

• explicit

• implicit

• theme

• summarize

Its lesson or message

• theme

• summarize

• character

• setting

To give the main events of a passage in the order in which they happen.

• summarize

• character

• setting

• plot

A person or thing in a work of literature

• character

• setting

• plot

• mythology

Where and when a literary passage takes place, including the time of day, the season, or the location.

• setting

• allusion

• prose

• verse

The events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of the passage

• plot

• mythology

• allusion

• prose

Literary passages about popular beliefs in different cultures

• mythology

• allusion

• prose

• verse

an indirect reference to something. When an author refers to something without mentioning it explicitly

• allusion

• prose

• verse

• rhythm