ELA Terms

The main/ big idea of the whole work

• central idea

• genre

• theme

• subject

Find important details that author uses to support central idea to write this

• lesson

• thesis

• objective summary

• formula

People or animals in a story

• actors

• author

• participants

• characters

When the problem of the story is solved; the end

• resolution

• theme

• climax

• exposition

These features gives the reader a clue about what information will be presented in each section of the text

• diagrams

• timelines

• introductions

• headings and subheadings

This text structure tells about something in detail

• description

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

• chronological

This type of figurative language makes a comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

To examine closely for explanation or interpretation

• analyze

• evaluate

• summarize

• study

To analyze for the value of information

• analyze

• identify

• summarize

• evaluate

Information presented to be read by the students

• text

• notes

• central idea

• papers