6th Grade ELA Academic Vocabulary | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

English 35 Public

PA Core English Language Arts Academic Vocabulary

Study Slideshow

The main reason an author has for writing a text. (to explain, express, inform, or persuade)

Point of View

Author's Purpose

Text Structure

Claim

15

To look for differences

Effect

Compare

Cause

Contrast

15

The emotion or judgement that a word expresses

Denotation

Connotation

Definition

Reference

15

A person, animal or other creature that takes part in the action of a story or poem

Plot

Resolution

Protagonist

Character

15

A type of figurative language that compares two unlike things using the words like or as

Personification

Simile

Hyperbole

Metaphor

15

A type of figurative language that makes a comparison without using like or as

Metaphor

Personification

Simile

Hyperbole

15

A type of figurative language that attributes humanlike qualities to something that is nonhuman

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Hyperbole

15

The conflict in a story that its characters must resolve

Plot

Resolution

Climax

Problem

15

Something that brings about an effect or a result

Contrast

Compare

Effect

Cause

15

The most important idea in a text (main idea)

Thesis

Central Idea

Conclusion

Main Points

15

To look for similarities

Effect

Cause

Contrast

Compare

15

The result of a cause

Cause

Contrast

Effect

Compare

15

The dictionary definition of a word

Antonym

Synonym

Connotation

Denotation

15

The end of a piece of writing that sums up the writer's main points; how a conflict is solved

Introduction

Beginning

Conclusion

Exposition

15

Name that tune!

Last Friday Night

Dark Horse

Firework

Roar

15

Evidence that helps to convey the main idea of a text

Fact

Opinion

Main Points

Inference

15