SC Ready Review ELA

A mention or reference to something; many times they are biblical, historical, or literary

• summary

• allusion

• connotative

• cite

The use of surrounding text to determine an unfamiliar word

• figurative

• summary

• evidence

• context clue

Anxiety about what will happen next in a story

• suspense

• dialogue

• analogy

• allusion

Tools an author uses to construct a story; the way a story is put together

• text structures

• relevant

• author's purpose

• paraphrase

Structures of a book, especially nonfiction; examples include headings, table of contents, glossary

• irony

• text features

• summary

• claim

Main idea of a text; what it is mostly about

• collaborate

• cite

• central idea

• claim

Educated guess based on the text and prior knowledge

• inference

• irony

• paraphrase

• summary

Reason the author wrote a text; examples include to entertain, to inform, to persuade

• inference

• irony

• paraphrase

• author's purpose

An assertion of something as a fact

• claim

• relevant

• cite

• irony

Restatement or rewording of a text in your own words.

• paraphrase

• cite

• relevant

• dialogue