ELA Terms

5. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
7. the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place
9. the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex
11. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
13. a word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it
14. a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen

1. a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion
2. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
3. person, place, or thing
4. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
6. a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
8. a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words
10. a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter
11. a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc
12. an idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature