Unit 5 Vocabulary: Facing Adversity

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristic to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

• THeme

• Imagery

• Symbolism

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

a form that is derived from a verb but that funtions as a noun

• comma

• gerund

• adjective

• personification

a word, letter, or number placed before another

• comma

• prefix

• suffix

• annotation

Tags

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice, based on facts: unbiased

• persuasive

• influential

• objective

• biased

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

a link between sentences

• question mark

• verb

• transition

• simple sentence

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

a problem or struggle

• conflict

• theme

• imagery

• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

a comparison of two things using like or as

• metaphor

• allusion

• contrast

• simile

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a comparison of one thing to another that does not use like or as; a direct comparison

• metaphor

• allusion

• contrast

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

author's attitude toward the writing and the readers. A text may have more than one

• metaphor

• tone

• objective

• simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

when a narrator uses I, me, or my when telling a story because the narrator is in the story

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

• 1st person

• 4th person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6