6th ELA FINALS Study Guide Flashcards
Setting
The time and place of a story
Point of view
The narrator’s position in the story
First person POV
The narrator is the main character
Third person Limited POV
The narrator isn’t a character and only knows the main character’s thoughts and feelings
Third person omniscient POV
The narrator isn’t a character and knows all the characters’ thoughts and feelings
Character traits
What a character is like on the inside
Direct characterization
The narrator directly describes a character
INdirect characterization
The character is described through text, feelings, and thoughts.
Mood
The reader’s feelings
Tone
The authors feelings
Author’s Purpose
The reason the book was written
The 7 author’s purposes
Entertain, Persuade, Recount, Instruct, Describe, Explain and Inform.
Plot
The events that make up a story
Expostion
The begining of the story that shows the characters, setting and mood
Rising action
Events that build tension and lead up to the climax
Climax
The most tense part of the story, the main character changes a bit.
Falling action
What happened as a result of the climax
Resolution
The ending of a story, isn’t always happy.
Primary sources and examples
Info about a topic from someone who witnessed it, diary/interview
Secondary sources and examples
Info about a topic from someone who didn’t witness it, newspaper/article
C.U.P.S
Capitals, correct Usage of tenses, Punctuation marks, Spelling.
A.R.M.S.
Add, Remove, Move, and Substitute words.
Types of sentences
Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory
Declarative meaning and example
Gives info about something and ends with a period, “My cat loves me.”
Imperative meaning and example
Is an order and ends with a period, “Do your work.”
Exclamatory meaning and example
States something and ends with an exclamation mark, “I can’t wait to get my FNAF merch!”
Interrogative meaning and example
Asks a question and ends with a question mark “What are you doing?”
Simple sentence meaning and example
Has 1 subject and 1 predicate, “I have 2 cats.”
Compound sentence
2 independent clauses joined into 1 sentence, “I waited for my brother but Sharjeel was running behind to pick me up.”
Adjective meaning and example
Describes an noun, “Good.”
Adverb
Describes a verb, “Quickly”
Common Noun
A non-specific noun, “Cats”
Proper noun
A specific noun, “My cats, Soup and Mano”
Central idea
The main purpose of the text
Supporting details
Details that support the central idea
Nonfiction Author’s purpose
Persuade, Recount, Instruct, Describe, Explain, and Inform
Persuade
To persuade you to believe or do something
Recount
To tell you a true story about a person or event
Instruct
To teach you how to do something
Describe
To describe something
Explain
To make clear or explain something
Inform
To give you info about something or something that happened
Key events
The main events or plot points of the story
Key individuals
The main people of the story
Key ideas
The main morals or lessons of the story
Comparisons
Comparing 2 ideas, people, pr events in the story
Analogies
A literary device used to compare similarities between two unrelated things as a way to make a point through the comparison
Categories
A class or division of ideas
Anecdotes
A short or amusing story about a real thing
Illustrations
Explains something with a drawing from an artist not a camera
Descriptions
Give details about something and paints a mental picture
Compare and contrast
Explains how 2 things are alike and different
Order and sequence
Gives ideas in a chronological order
Problem and solution
Describes a problem and how to fix it
Cause and effect
What happened (cause) and the effects
Preface
An intro to a book written by the author
Epilogue
A comment at the end of the book from the author about the story
Appendix
A section at the end with additional matter, definitions and more
Glossary
A mini dictionary of the book’s unique words
