ELA Middle School

Illustrates means ...

• To show or represent
• To draw something
• To create something
• To believe something

Cause/effect ...

• Problem/solution
• Angry birds
• Issue/answer
• Alike/difference

Inference equals...

• My guess + author's guess
• Plot + Setting
• Issue + Answer
• My knowledge + Evidence

Tone is ...

• Reader's opinion
• Reader's attitude
• Author's attitude
• Author's opionion

Hyperbole ...

• Extreme exaggeration
• Like or As
• The leaves danced
• Boom!

Stanza ....

• Lines
• Poem paragraph
• Rhyming
• Repeition

Theme ...

• Message/Moral
• Fable
• Short Story
• Poem

Personification ...

• Sally sells sea shells
• Snap! Crackle! Pop!
• 5 sences
• Leaves danced

Characterization ...

• Figurative, Analysis, Speech, Teach
• Feelings, Actions, Saying, Thoughts
• Friends, Abilities, Sadness, Technology
• Focus, Apply, Stop, Think

Author's Purpose ...

• Donut
• Cookie
• Pie
• Chocolate