ELA Terms

The reason the author wrote the text (Inform, persuade, or entertain)

• Author's Purpose

• Foreshadow

• Analogy

• Biography

A word that is the opposite in meaning to another word.

• Opinion

• Paraphrase

• Antonym

• Understand

A character or force in conflict with the main character

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Understand

• Connotation

An account of someone's life written by someone else

• Redundancy

• Biography

• Point of View

• Wordiness

A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific.

• Adjective

• Bias

• Figurative language

• Idiom

Find similarities

• Compare

• Complications

• Point of View

• Bias

Find differences

• Contrast

• Bias

• Hyperbole

• Evidence

The reason why something happens

• Compare

• Synonym

• Cause

• Adjective

A result or consequence

• Foreshadow

• Bias

• Effect

• Dangling Modifier

10. Conversation between two or more characters

• Connotation

• Idiom

• Verb

• Dialogue