Academic Vocabulary

conversation occurring between or among characters...

• stage directions

• persuade

• dialogue

• first person point of view

what the selection is all about (hint: look at the title)...

• text structure

• context clues

• plot

• main idea

the way the author or character looks at a situation or idea...

• perspective

• expository writing

• author's claim

• author's purpose

an overall life lesson a reader or character learns as a result of the events in a narrative selection...

• resolution

• motivation

• theme

• opinion

the person or character who is telling the story...

• 3rd person point of view-limited

• stage directions

• 3rd person point of view- omniscient

• narrator

the reason an author writes a particular selection...

• author's claim

• motivation

• opinion

• author's purpose

descriptive writing that creates a vision in the reader's mind...

• metaphor

• imagery

• simile

• hyperbole

when one thing represents another (an eagle stands for freedom)...

• figurative language

• imagery

• symbol

• idiom

hints an author gives about what might happen later in a story...

• foreshadow

• flashback

• plot

• personification

the end of a story when all problems have been solved and the events are wrapped up...

• falling action

• exposition

• climax

• resolution