5th grade Reading Academic Vocabulary Part I

Used to convince the reader of the writer's point of view

• metaphor

• internal rhyme

• free verse

• persuasive

the central part of a story during which various problems arise, leading up to the climax

• point of view

• rising action

• exposition

• autobiography

the story of a person's life written by that person in first person point of view

• autobiography

• falling action

• rising action

• foreshadow

the narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character

• rising action

• third person limited point of view

• falling action

• stage directions

The use of clues to suggest events that will happen later in the plot

• free verse

• exposition

• foreshadow

• narrator

a comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"

• imagery

• narrator

• metaphor

• dialogue

To communicate or express

• genre

• moral

• convey

• cause

The problem in the story

• chronological order

• conflict

• convey

• resolution

When two words rhyme in the same line of poetry

• falling action

• onomatopoeia

• rhyme scheme

• internal rhyme

A brief statement of the main events of a story

• justify

• setting

• summary

• procedural