6th Grade ELA Milestones Vocab Matching

Match the following:

• Main idea/ important point

  in a text

• Literary Texts

• Stories

  Dramas

  Poems

• Objective Summary

• Author tells you

  what you need to know

• Inference

• An overview

  of the main points

• Explicit Idea

• Conclusion based on

  evidence

• Central Idea

Match the following

• The message of a literary text

• Plot

• The way author develops a character

• Resolution

• Order of events in a story

• Characterization

• Author’s attitude

  about subject/

  audience

• Tone

• Solution to the problem in a story

• Theme

Match the following

• NOT literal meaning of words and phrases

• Personification

• Comparison where one thing is another

• Simile

• Actual meaning of words and phrases

• Literal Language

• Author describes an object as a person

• Figurative Language

• Comparison using like or as

• Metaphor

Match the following

• The trees sighed.

• Personification

• She is as pretty as her mother.

• Simile

• The recess was a zoo.

• Hyperbole

• My father can lift two tons.

• Metaphor

Match the following

• Words that repeat vowel sounds

  (no rhyme)

• Assonance

• Exaggeration beyond belief

• Hyperbole

• Words that imitate sounds

• Idiom

• Words that use the same sound to start

• Onomatopoeia

• Expression specific to a language

• Alliteration

Match the following

• It was raining cats and dogs!

• Idiom

• meow, pop, fizz, clop, chop

• Assonance

• The beautiful butterfly blew by the bay.

• Onomatopoeia

• cake/lane

  eat/eel

• Alliteration

Match the following

• chapter

  scene

  stanza

• Denotative Meaning

• personification

  simile

  metaphor

  hyperbole

• Types of Structure

• Breaks pieces into smaller portions

• Types of figurative language

• Beyond explicit:

  'childlike' - innocence

• Structure

• Explicit: 'helpful' - of service

• Connotative Meaning

Match the following

• Narrator's perspective

• Point of View

• Where and when a story takes place

• Chapter

• Section of a poem

• Setting

• Section of a drama or play

• Scene

• Section of a book

• Stanza

Match the following

• I/We fell.

• 3rd Person

  Point of View

• You fell.

• 1st Person

  Point of View

• He/She/It/They fell.

• 2nd Person Point of View

Match the following

• Category of text: fiction or nonfiction

• Contrasting

• Analyzing things in relation to each oth

• Comparing

• Analyzing differences between

  two things

• Speaker

• Character telling story from her point

• Narrator

• Voice of writer's feelings and situation

• Genre