Academic Vocabulary Definitions

process of looking closely at the small parts of a text to see how they work together and affect the whole

• analysis/analyze

• chronological

• complex characters

• development

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the pattern or structure used in storytelling; how events in the story are organized

• development

• dramas

• emerge

• plot

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a universal statement about life and/or society that can be discerned from the reading of a text

• textual evidence

• specific details

• poetry

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

plays consisting of one or more acts

• exposition

• chronological

• objective summary

• dramas

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

how an author reveals a character through that character's thoughts, words, and actions or what other characters say or think

• character development

• interact

• fiction

• indirect characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

characters who present conflicting or shifting thoughts, actions, and motivations

• development

• exposition

• multiple/confliction motivations

• complex characters

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a literary text based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact; includes adventure stories, historical fiction, mysteries, myths, science fiction, realistic fiction, allegories, parodies, and satires

• literary text

• cite

• fiction

• development

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

when a story is arranged in order of time from the beginning to the end

• chronological

• development

• exposition

• interact

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the process by which characters grow or change in a text or the method the author uses to slowly reveal theme throughout a text

• emerge

• literary text

• development

• direct characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

when the reader is told what a character is like or when a speaker or narrator describes what he or she thinks about a character

• emerge

• explicit

• specific details

• direct characterization

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D