ACAP ELA Review

Why do people use figurative language?

• To make writing more interesting and to create images in the reader's head.

• To use fancy big words.

• To make their writing longer.

• To create a universal truth or deeper message. 

Able to move quickly and easily

• Agile

• Divulge

• Erratic

• Manufacture

Using your background knowledge AND clues from the text to figure it out

• inference/infer

• recount/retell

• context clue

A clue that tell you what an unknown word means

• inference/infer

• context clue

• support

To picture something

• visualize

• support

• dialogue

What the text is mostly about

• main idea

• key detail

• summary

A short retelling of the text that includes only the main idea and key details

• main idea

• key detail

• summary

The point the author is trying to make that he/she supports with details

• key detail

• text features

• author's point

uses descriptive words to describe something to the reader

• key details

• text structure

• description

The things outside of the text that give you more information like charts, graphs, diagrams, sidebars, and headings

• text features

• summary

• main idea