Unit 2 Vocabulary List 1

a stage in the writing process when a written text is prepared for an audience by attending to and correcting mechanics, grammar, and spelling

• publishing

• proof-reading

• editing

• composition

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices

• figurative language

• word choice

• literary device

• style

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

the basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• hook

• theme

• plot

• literary device

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

the perspective from which the events in the story are told

• point of view

• word choice

• voice

• plot

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a specific convention or structure—such as imagery, irony, or foreshadowing—that is employed by the author to produce a given effect

• literary device

• voice

• literary text

• hook

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

the time and place in which a narrative occurs; elements may include the physical, psychological, cultural, or historical background against which the story takes place

• mood

• plot

• setting

• theme

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

in literature, the opposition of persons or forces that brings about dramatic action central to the plot of a story...may be internal (man vs. self) or external (man vs. man, man, vs. nature, or man vs. society)

• foreshadowing

• conflict

• characterization

• literary device

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a literary device used by an author to provide hints about future events and details that occur later in the story

• conflict

• setting

• point of view

• foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the method in which an author constructs a character by explicitly stating aspects of his/her personality and appearance or by revealing aspects of the character through their actions, thoughts, speech, other characters, etc.

• characterization

• conflict

• plot

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.L.6.6

The prefix "pre-" means...

• present

• before

• future

• past

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A