ELA Milestone Review #1

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Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.

This is reading between the lines. It is taking something that you read and putting it together with something you already know to make sense of what you read.

There are four types of this; fiction (stories), nonfiction (biography, instructions), dramas (plays, writing that uses dialogue and stage directions), and poetry (writing that may use short lines, stanzas, rhythm, and sometimes rhyme.).

This is the emotional feelings and associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word.

To strengthen an argument or an idea by providing facts, details, examples, and other information

This is what people use in everyday speech. It usually consists of fairly short sentences and simple vocabulary. **colloquial **the language of everyday speech **may use contractions and slang **vernacular **The casual language we use every day.

An expression that cannot be understood if taken literally (example: Get your head out of the clouds).

This is a restatement of a written work in one's own words that keeps the basic meaning of the original work.