SpringBoard Unit 1 Vocabulary - Grade 6

to separate something into parts and study how the parts are related; read closely for a deeper understanding of a text

• analyze

• sequence

• cause-and effect

• coherence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.W.6.9A

A conversation between characters - it is recognizable in a piece of writing due to the use quotation marks

• analyze

• rising action

• falling action

• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3B

A comparison using like or as

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RL.6.4

A meaning associated with a word which implies an association or emotion that the word evokes, but is not the literal (dictionary) definition

• connotation

• denotation

• personification

• sequential

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Literal meaning of a word - best way to remember is "D" for dictionary meaning

• connotation

• denotation

• personification

• sequential

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4D

CCSS.L.6.5C

A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as.

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

A writer's or speaker's choice of words

• diction

• connotation

• denotation

• personification

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

personal writing that covers an event in the writer's life

• short story

• personal narrative

• argumentative text

• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3A

CCSS.W.6.3B

CCSS.W.6.3D

Descriptive language that attempts to invoke one or more of the five senses, such as hearing, seeing, touching, smelling, tasting.

• simile

• personification

• sensory language

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3D

The act of creating and developing a character

• foreshadowing

• characterization

• rising action

• exposition

Tags

CCSS.W.6.3A

CCSS.W.6.3B