ELA Terms
Across
- 2. Author’s attitude towards the topic they are writing about
- 4. Literal meaning of a passage; states the main points of a text
- 6. Focus of a text; what the text is about
- 10. paragraph format used in class
- 11. Final paragraph in an essay that leaves the reader with something to think about
- 12. Aspects of a text that show what information is important or necessary to understand the text
- 16. How information is organized in a text
- 17. What the author wants the reader to feel
- 19. literal definition of a word
- 20. Answer to a prompt or question in a paragraph; first sentence of a short response
Down
- 1. Conclusion based on evidence; educated guess
- 3. Message the author is trying to convey to the reader; life lesson
- 5. format used in ELA for essays and research papers
- 7. person who wrote the text
- 8. words that rhyme at the end of lines in a poem that form a pattern; denoted by the letters of the alphabet
- 9. emotional association with a word
- 13. reason why a particular quote is being used for evidence to support a point
- 14. Final sentence in an introductory paragraph that says what the essay will be about
- 15. word that joins words and phrases in a sentence; FANBOYS and SWABI
- 18. person sharing the story