Milestones ELA Key Terms

a reasonable argument that opposes or disagrees with another claim; supported by evidence and sound reasoning

• Connotation

• Counterclaim

• Propel the Action

• Inference

occurs when particular lines of dialogue or specific incidents in a story cause something to happen.

• Propel the Action

• Counterclaim

• Objective Summary

• Compare and Contrast

refers to reasoning that makes sense and follows some sort of logic.

• Dialogue

• Sound

• Inference

• Claim

analyzes the relationship between ideas in a text, both similarities and differences.

• Propel the Action

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

a statement that can be proven vs. a statement of an author's belief or judgment about something.

• Fact and Opinion

• Distinction

• Cause and Effect

• Compare and Contrast

the author's intention for his/her writing: to persuade, inform, explain, or entertain.

• Compare and Contrast

• Author's Purpose

• Objective Summary

• Cause and Effect

when an author holds a strong opinion or belief about his/her topic; statements that favor one opinion or idea over another, sometimes creating an unsound or unfair argument by the author.

• Bias

• Dialogue

• Textual Features

• Relevant

passages that explain or inform.

• Compare and Contrast

• Denotation

• Literary Texts

• Informational Texts

something that occurs in a story; can reveal aspects of characters, advance the plot, or provoke decisions within a story.

• Incident

• Inference

• Relevant

• Dialogue

the order in which a series of events happened; text is arranged in order of time from beginning to end.

• Chronological Order

• Textual Features

• Distinction

• Bias