Academic Vocabulary

to examine a text carefully and attempt to understand the author's purpose

• irony

• analyze

• conflict

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

when a character says the opposite of what they mean

• point of view

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the two opposing forces in a story such as man vs. man or man vs. nature or man vs. self

• irony

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

when the audience or reader knows something the characters do not

• dramatic irony

• verbal irony

• conflict

• oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a comparison using "like" or "as"

• metaphor

• simile

• hyperbole

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a paragraph or group of lines in a poem

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• irony

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a 4-line stanza in a poem

• hyperbole

• octave

• simile

• quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a ten-syllable line of poetry where an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable

• sestet

• verbal irony

• onomatopoeia

• iambic pentameter

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

a poetic structure where certain lines rhyme with certain other lines in the poem

• rhyme scheme

• meter

• iambic pentameter

• octave

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

when the opposite of what you expect to happen happens

• historical context

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3