Q4 academic vocabulary 8th grade

bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; pertinent

• evidence

• irrelevant

• relevant

• opinion

introduces the central conflict

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

a struggle between opposing forces.

• character traits

• conflict

• foreshadow

• tone

the repetition of sounds at the ends of words. this creates a songlike quality to the verse and to emphasize certain words and ideas.

• poetry

• lyric poem

• rhyme

• meter

a particular tendency, trend, inclination, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned.

• fact

• opinion

• bias

• relevant

A story that can be fiction. Novels and short stories are types of fictional narratives. Biographies and autobiographies are nonfiction narratives

• conflict

• tone

• foreshadow

• narrative

not relevant; not applicable or pertinent

• relevant

• irrelevant

• fact

• opinion

Writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses

• narrative

• sensory language

• tone

• foreshadow

a highly musical verse that the observations and feelings of a single speaker.

• poetry

• free verse

• lyric poem

• rhyme

a sequence of events in which each event results from a previous one and causes the next

• plot

• rising action

• falling action

• resolution