ELA Terms-Semester One

How the author expresses his/her feelings through the character(s)

• Mood
• Topic
• Dialect
• Tone

Narrator

• The person who tells the story
• Something that means exactly what it says
• The subject of a writing piece; what the writing is all about
• The person in the novel (story), play, or movie

Point of View

• The feeling the reader gets due to the words and descriptions used in the text
• From a person's certain perspective
• A text that is written in paragraph form
• When or where a story takes place (ex: time, year, seasons, location)

The subject of a writing piece; what the writing is all about

• Setting
• Dialect
• Tone
• Topic

Literal Language

• Something that means EXACTLY what it says
• Writing that includes literary devices (ex: figurative languages) and literary elements (ex: plot, setting, characters...)
• The feeling the reader gets due to the words and descriptions used in the text
• A piece of writing where you prove your claim is correct through reasoning, evidence, and explanation

A text that is written in paragraph form

• Verse Structure
• Prose Structure
• Tone
• Literary Text

Setting

• The person who is tells the story
• The message or "Big Idea" of the story that you can apply to your life. Always in a one sentence statement
• When or where a story takes place (ex: time, year, seasons, location)
• Nonfiction source with the intention of informing the reader of a certain topic

A piece of writing where you prove your claim is correct through reasoning, evidence, and explanation

• Literary Text
• Argument Writing
• Mood
• Figurative Language

Verse Structure

• A text that is written in poetic format (written in stanzas and lines)
• How someone talks based off of where they live (ex: y'all, you all, you guys)
• Something that means exactly what it says
• The feeling the reader gets due to the words and descriptions used in the text

Writing that includes literary devices (ex: figurative languages) and literary elements (ex: plot, setting, characters...)

• Point of View
• Mood
• Figurative Language
• Literary Text