WorksheetsF.A.S.T. ELA Vocabulary
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 36mins
What is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of words near each other?
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Assonance
Rhyme
Words used in an imaginative way to express ideas that are not literally true but express a complex meaning.
(a)
Detailed words and phrases that engage a reader's five senses.
(a)
(a) refers to the perspective a writer chooses to narrate a story
A group of two or more lines in a poem.
Rhyme
Stanza
Meter
Refrain
The writer or narrator's attitude toward their subject (formal, informal, serious, comic, sarcastic, sad, cheerful, etc.)
Genre
Setting
Tone
Plot
A comparison of two very different things without using "like" or "as".
(a)
The voice that tells a story, which varies in reliability.
Author
Character
Plot
Narrator
The structure or arrangement of lines, stanzas, and sounds in a poem, designed to reflect topics in the poem.
Poetic Meter
Poetic Form
Poetic Theme
Poetic Rhyme
When a poem does not follow any particular rhyme scheme or meter.
Free Verse
Haiku
Limerick
Sonnet
A type of figurative language that exaggerates something.
Hyperbole
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
The atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader through description, especially about the setting.
(a)
Giving human qualities/behaviors to non-human things.
Anthropomorphism
Personification
Metaphor
Allegory
A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter, traditionally focused on passion or love.
(a)
A 19-line poem with recurring refrains that create depth, rhythm, and emphasis.
Ode
Villanelle
Limerick
Sonnet
The literary element that expresses the universal moral or lesson of a story, usually by way of the protagonist.
(a)
A conclusion drawn from text evidence and known facts.
Prediction
Inference
Interpretation
Analysis
A written note, symbol, or mark close-readers add to a text to comment on or clarify information.
Commentary
Context
Annotation
Exposition
Refers to the category of a text based on the author's purpose for writing (to inform, persuade, or entertain).
(a)
The most important, main thoughts unifying a text.
Supporting Arguments
Narrative Structure
Character Development
Central Ideas
The situation within which something happens that can help explain it; for example, the ideas surrounding an unknown word.
(a)
Accurately saying something someone else has said or written using different words.
Paraphrase
Summarize
Translate
Elaborate
The words an author chooses to use (can be connected to their purpose for writing).
Syntax
Diction
Tone
Imagery
The way an author chooses to arrange words, form sentences and use grammar.
Semantics
Phonology
Syntax
Morphology
Visual displays accompanying a text that make complicated facts easier to grasp.
(a)
Information you cite from another source to support and strengthen a claim, reason, or inference.
Claim
Evidence
Rhetorical Devices
Circular Reasoning
Tools for persuasion
Deductive Reasoning
Rhetorical Devices
Specialized Vocabulary
The organizational patter chosen to convey the central ideas of an informational text, such as cause & effect, compare & contrast, chronological order, etc.
(a)
Words and phrases specific to a text that help readers understand complex or unfamiliar subjects, usually defined explicitly by the author for clarity.
(a)
A rhetorical appeal to credibility or moral principles
Ethos
Pathos
Logos
Analogy
A rhetorical appeal to clear logic or reason.
(a)
A rhetorical appeal to emotion.
Logos
Pathos
Ethos
Mythos
A line of thought that begins with a specific observation and draws a broad conclusion.
(a)
A line of thought that begins with general facts and draws a specific conclusion.
Inductive Reasoning
Deductive Reasoning
Abductive Reasoning
Intuitive Reasoning
Refers to many errors that can be found in the reasoning of an argument, showing the argument to be invalid, irrelevant, or flawed.
Factual Error
Logical Fallacy
Syntax Error
Semantic Error
Appealing to popularity as a method of persuasion.
(a)
Making a general statement or conclusion without sufficient evidence.
(a)
Drawing extreme and undesirable conclusions from an assembly of unproven chain reactions.
Slippery Slope
False Dilemma
Hasty Generalization
Appeal to Authority
Using an argument’s conclusion as the premise for proving the argument (assuming what it is attempting to prove).
Deductive Reasoning
Circular Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Abductive Reasoning
Attacking or criticizing someone’s character rather than the logic or content of an argument.
Red herring
Straw man
Ad hominem
Slippery slope
