Academic Vocabulary

What word means the most intense or interesting part of a story?

• conflict

• flashback

• foreshadow

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A comparative phrase that doesn't use 'like' or 'as'.

• similie

• voice

• metaphor

• compare

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

What word relates to showing the future, or giving a warning?

• symbolism

• mood

• index

• foreshadow

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

All are examples of colloquialism except...

• rolling

• yonder

• suh dude

• ain't

"A pilot has a fear of heights" is an example of what?

• imagery

• irony

• myth

• flashback

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The event that happens right after the climax in a story is...

• rising action

• tone

• falling action

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

An idiom is...

• an exaggeration

• a phrase that doesn't actually mean what it is saying

• a comparison

• a statement that means the opposite and is typically sarcastic

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5B

CCSS.L.5.5B

Irony means...

• the most interesting part of a story

• comparing something using 'like' or 'as'

• a statement that means the opposite and is typically sarcastic

• the person who is telling the story

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does mood mean?

• how you're supposed to feel reading

• the feeling the author wants you to feel

• the way you feel when you walk home in the rain

• the feeling you have when Monday morning hits

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Flashback is used when...

• the author entertaining you by going in the past

• there is an important aspect in the story that happened in the past that needs to be shared

• they want to show/explain to you what life was like for the character in the past

• they couldn't think of anything else to write about, so they are giving you a story about the past

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5