Academic Vocabulary Unit 1

Text made up of sentences and paragraphs without any metrical (or rhyming) structure.

• plot

• prose

• theme

• foreshadow

• subplot

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

A part of a book or story that develops separately from the main plot.

• plot

• prose

• theme

• foreshadow

• subplot

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

To give a clue or hint that suggest what will happen later in the plot.

• plot

• prose

• theme

• foreshadow

• subplot

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

A group of lines in a poem

• subplot

• refrain

• theme

• stanza

• plot

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the series of related events that make up a story and move it along.

• subplot

• refrain

• theme

• stanza

• plot

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

the story’s lesson about life; its message or moral- often related to what the protagonist learns 

• subplot

• refrain

• theme

• stanza

• plot

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

a repeated phrase, line, or group of lines that is re usually appears at the end of a stanza

• subplot

• refrain

• theme

• stanza

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Dreams in stories sometimes ____________ events that will happen later.

• prose

• foreshadow

• theme

• plot

• subplot

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Kwame Alexander writes novels using poetry, but this one uses __________.

• prose

• foreshadow

• theme

• plot

• subplot

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The friendship that develops between Simba, Timon, and Pumbaa in The Lion King is an example of a ____________.

• prose

• foreshadow

• theme

• plot

• subplot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9