RLA

The ____________________ is the speaker who tells the story in a literary text from his or her point of view. (RL3, RL6)

• narrator

• theme

• character

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

The _______________ is the voice of a literary text that speaks about the writer’s feelings or situation. The speaker is not always the author because the author may be writing the text from a different perspective. In poems and stories, the speaker may not be an actual person but an imagined one. In poems, the speaker is often not named or identified by gender or any other characteristics. (RL3, RL6)

• speaker

• judge

• main character

• protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

make a comparison using a linking word such as like, as, or than. (Her shirt was as green as the grass.)

• Metaphors

• Similes

• Personification

• Quote

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

A ___________________ makes a comparison without a linking word; instead of one thing being like another, one thing is another. If someone describes recess by saying “It was a zoo,” he or she is using a metaphor. Recess was chaotic with lots of different people running around; it was not literally a zoo. (RL4)

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• quote

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

_________ ____ __________ us the perspective from which a story is told. The point of view depends upon who the narrator is and how much he or she knows. The point of view could be first person (I went to the store), second person (You went to the store), or third person (He went to the store). The point of view used by the author can have a big influence on the story. (RL6)

• opinion

• fact

• persuasive

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

________________ elements are pictures, drawings, cartoons or comics, or diagrams that help a reader create a mental picture of the text. (RL7)

• quotes

• inferences

• main idea

• visual

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RL.3.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

CCSS.RL.5.7

The _____________ found in writing is the attitude of an author about a subject or an audience. The author will choose words and language to create a tone and express a viewpoint in a text. (RL7)

• simile

• metaphor

• tone

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A _______________ is a category of composition. Each genre has a particular style, form, and content. For example, mysteries and adventure stories are literary genres. (RL9)

• genre

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

The main events of a story, play, or other literary work. These events may or may not be told in the order that they occur.

• Plot

• Claim

• Author's Message

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The act of improving a piece of writing by making corrections to spelling, capitalization, verb tense, punctuation, and other conventions. This makes the grammar correct.

• revise

• edit

Tags

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.4.2D

CCSS.W.5.2D