ELA Key terms

5 W’s

• who, what, when, where, why 

• How, but, where, then

• setting

• Exposition

Abbreviation

• Long sentence

• N.,V. adj.

• shortened form of a word 

• Short

group of letters and sounds added to a root word

• A basic word to which affixes (prefixes and suffixes) are added is called a root word because it forms the basis of a new word.

• Affix

Alliteration

• She Sells sea shells by the sea shore

• repetition of sound at the beginning of words

• abcd order 

• group of letters and sounds added to a root word

reference to a famous person or work 

• idiom

• assonance

• alliteration

• Allusion

abcd order 

• Alphabetical

• Alliteration

• SImile

• Metaphor

Analogy

• opposites 

• an appeal to a person's desire to be part of a group

• point by point comparison of two things 

• event (cause) that brings about an action (effect

Antonyms

• a word opposite in meaning to another (e.g. bad and good ).

• opposite

• Synonyms

Autobiography

• life story written by self 

• a text written about someone else's life (usually someone famous).

• biography

• is a self-written account of one's life.

Ballad

• These red poppies are a dime a dozen.

• short, simple story-telling poem meant to be a song

• John Keats's “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” Thomas Hardy's “During Wind and Rain,” and Edgar Allan Poe's “Annabel Lee.”

• idiom