Key Terms for the ELA GMAS

Stories, dramas, or poems

• Theme

• Inference

• Summarize

• Literary Text

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

To come to a reasonable conclusion based on what you know and what you read

• inference

• plot

• setting

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Lesson or message of a literary passage

• setting

• theme

• main idea

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

To give the main events of a passage in the order in which they happen.

• character

• setting

• summarize

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A person or thing in a work of literature.

• Character

• Setting

• Plot

• Inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

Where and when a story takes place, including the time of day, the season, or the location.

• Plot

• Character

• Setting

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

The events that happen in the beginning, middle, and end of the passage.

• Plot

• Setting

• Character

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Literary passages about popular beliefs in different cultures,

• prose

• poem

• mythology

• drama

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

An indirect reference to something.

• Summary

• Point of View

• Prose

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

A form of writing that uses ordinary language. It is the opposite of poetry.

• Poem

• Prose

• Verse

• Meter

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.4