SpringBoard Unit 1 Vocabulary

What is a narrative?

• A type of writing that tells a story
• A figure of speech
• A brief history
• The person telling the story

Clues or hints signaling events that will occur later in the plot is  called

• a flashback
• foreshadowing
• a simile
• a metaphor

Clues or hints signaling events that will occur later in the plot is  called

• a flashback
• foreshadowing
• a simile
• a metaphor

______________________is to study the details of a work to identify essential features or meaning

• Evaluate
• Synthesize
• Analyze
• Guess

The methods a writer uses to develop characters is called

• personality
• comparisons
• credible
• characterization

The category or type of literature is referred to as the ____________

• sort
• hook
• genre
• classification

To exaggerate in an extreme way is called

• hyperbole
• effect
• dialogue
• oxymoron

Her eyes were like diamonds is an example of a ___________________

• Metaphor
• Idiom
• Hyperbole
• Simile

To sequence events means to 

• put things in a logical order
• bedazzle  a clothing item
• create a pattern
• create a second episode

Pretty ugly and jumbo shrimp are examples of _______________

• Similes
• Onomatopoeias
• oxymorons
• hyperboles