ELA Vocab

What definition best describes characterization?

• The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character

• Use details to give the listener or reader a clear image of what you are trying to say

• Reference to something, someone, or an event

• An exaggeration of a person's ability

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

An educated guess based on what you see in the text and what you already know (background knowledge) is called __________.

• infer

• predict

• summary

• interpret

Tags

CCSS.RF.5.4A

CCSS.RF.5.4C

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

What does justify mean?

• investigate

• research

• to prove

• defend

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

When you draw conclusions from your reading?

• An educated guess based on what you see in the text and what you already know (background knowledge)

• An educated guess based on what you see in the text and what you already know (background knowledge)

• Taking details from a text and piecing them together to make a judgment

• What something shows, why it matters, why it’s important

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

The tone of a piece of literature is defined as?

• The overall arch of character's journey

• The overall emotion (feeling) created by literature

• The overall setting created by literature

• The overall plot created by literature

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Separate something into parts to understand how all of the parts make a whole; look closely at the information is defined as?

• Inspection

• analyze

• look closely

• stare

Tags

CCSS.L.5.6

CCSS.L.6.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

The author’s attitude toward something is referred to as:

• tone

• proof

• theme

• happy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

What does signify mean?

• Use details to give the listener or reader a clear image of what you are trying to say

• A general retelling of the story without all of the details

• Reach a decision at the end

• What something shows, why it matters, why it’s important

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Evaluate also means to?

• Focus on how two things could be improved

• Focus on how two things are different

• Focus on how two things are alike

• Determine the value or quality of given information

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

When something is ironic or has irony, it means?

• The opposite of what is expected

• Reference to something, someone, or an event

• To make something more believable by providing evidence

• To make something more believable by providing a way out.

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A