Academic Vocabulary U1W4

An author's purpose used to hold the reader's attention through enjoyment; generally funny or fiction

• Inform

• Entertain

• Story Structure

• Antonyms

An author's purpose used to provide the reader with information about a topic

• Inform

• Express ideas or feelings

• Friendly letter

• Dialect

The reason or reasons an author has for writing

• Theme

• Plot

• Setting

• Author's purpose

The arrangement of a story from beginning to end: helps you summarize a story.

• Persuade

• Trickster Tale

• Story structure

• Compound words

An author's purpose used to give the author's opinion about a topic (diary or journal).

• Express ideas and feelings

• Synonyms

• Setting

• Entertain

Letters in which the writer's thoughts are expressed in an informal way.

• Inform

• Dialect

• Theme

• Friendly Letter

A form of speech characteristic of a certain region "hey ya'll"

• Antonyms

• Story structure

• Dialect

• Persuade

Words that have opposite meanings

• Antonyms

• Character

• Synonyms

• Setting

The lesson a story teaches.

• Dialect

• Plot

• Theme

• Friendly letter

A story about animals who outsmart bigger and stronger creatures.

• Trickster tale

• Synonyms

• Story structure

• Plot