Language Arts Terms

What is an Idiom

• A phrase that means something different than its individual words

• Part of the narrative after the climax but before the end.

• The Challenges a character needs to overcome to acheive their goal.

• Decisions, character traits and events that lead to the climax of the plot.

What is Falling Action?

• The challenges a character needs to overcome and acheive their goal.

• Part of the Narrative after the climax but before the end.

• Time period, place and circumstance

• When the audience knows something a character does not.

What is conflict?

• Decisions, character traits and circumstances that lead to the climax of the plot.

• Time and relative dimension in space.

• The challenges a character needs to overcome to acheive their goal.

• An idea or event used in an introduction to grab attention.

What is rising action?

• Time and Relative Dimension in Space.

• An opposite claim used to disprove an argument.

• an idea or event used in an introduction to grab attenition.

• Decisions, character traits and circumstances that lead tothe climax of a plot.

What is the setting?

• Time and relative dimension in space.

• Words that say exactly what they mean.

• Comparison that does not use like or as.

• Words that end with a similar sound.

What is the literal meaning?

• Words or phrases that depend on the context for their meaning.

• Comparison that does not use like or as.

• A word that says exactly what it means.

• A word that sounds like the sound it describes.

What is figurative Language?

• Words that end with a similar sound.

• words that sound like the sound they describe.

• Comparison that does not use like or as.

• Words or phrases that depend on context for their meaning.

What is a metaphor?

• Comparison using like or as.

• Comparision NOT using like or as.

• Comparing a thing to a person.

• Two or more words beginning with the same sound.

What is an Onomatopoeia?

• A word that sounds like the sound it describes.

• Words that end in a similar sound.

• Two or more words beginning with the same consonant sound.

• Words that are exactly the opposite of one another.

What is a rhyme?

• Two or more words beginning with the same consonant sound.

• Words that are exactly the opposite of one another.

• Words that end in a similar sound.

• An indication ofr hint of a future event.