5th Grade ALL OF ELA Vocabulary

What is a setting?

• The moral, life lesson, or message of the story

• Talking about a character's feelings and traits

• Where or when the story takes place

• The character's perspective or opinion about something

What are events?

• Things that happen in the story

• The character's perspective or opinion about something

• Talking about a character's feelings and traits

• The moral, life lesson, or message of the story

What is a conflict?

• The solution or answer to a problem

• A problem or disagreement in the story

• Things that happen in the story

• All of the events in the whole story

What is characterization?

• A person, animal, or creature in a story

• Talking about a character's traits and/or feelings

• The solution or answer to a problem

• A problem or disagreement in the story

What is the definition of contribute?

• Means to add to

• Means to show

• Means to explain

• Means to tell

What is the definition of plot?

• The solution or answer to a problem

• A problem or disagreement in the story

• The most important event in the story

• All of the events that happen in the whole story

What is a character?

• A person, animal, or creature in a story

• Talking about a character's traits and/or feelings

• The solution or answer to a problem

• A problem or disagreement in the story

What is the definition of "develop" as used in literary contexts?

• To show how the author shows something

• To explain how the author explains something

• To tell how the author tells something

• To add to how the author adds to something

What does "theme" refer to in a story?

• The solution or answer to a problem

• A problem or disagreement in the story

• The most important event in the story

• The message, lesson, or moral of the story

Which of the following are common themes in literature? (Select all that apply.)

• Never give up

• Practice makes perfect

• Don't bite your pencil eraser

• Never judge a book by its cover