ELA Terminology

What is the plot of a story?

• Where and when the story takes place.

• The events in the story from beginning to end.

• The main idea/message of the story that the author want you to consider.

What is the narrator?

• Where and when the story takes place.

• The events in the story from beginning to end.

• The person who tells the story.

She sells sea shells by the sea shore is an example of...

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

He was hungry like a wolf is an example of...

• A metaphor

• A simile

• Personification

Boom! Pow! Snap! All those words are examples of...

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Similes

An oxymoron is two opposite words joined side-by-side for an effect.

• True

• False

What is a hyperbole?

• An extreme exaggeration.

• The use of vivid language to generate ideas and/or evoke mental images.

• The representation of something else, usually an idea or abstraction.

Repeating words, phrases, etc. to emphasize an idea is called repetition.

• True

• False

The main idea/message of the story that the author wants you to consider is called...

• Character

• Theme

• Conflict

Conflicts are the challenges that occur. It can be person vs person, self, nature, or society.

• True

• False