Academic Vocabulary Week 6

Person, animal, or made-up creature in a story or play

• setting

• character

• monster

• village boy

A story that is performed on the stage

• skit

• dance

• performance

• drama

The words the characters say in a story or a play

• dialogue

• conversation

• friendly talk

• answers

Any form of writing that is not poety

• poem

• handwriting

• prose

• cursive

Describes the usual or most basic meaning of a word

• easy

• literacy

• logic

• literal

A part of a play in which all the action takes place in the same setting

• beginning

• scene

• conclusion

• summary

A short group of words that has meaning

• phrase

• sentence

• question

• summary

Verses or lines of a poem, grouped together to describe an image or an event

• paragraph

• song

• stanza

• set

Sections or parts of stories of books

• closing

• heading

• table of contents

• chapters

A main section or part of a play

• introduction

• chapter

• acts

• topic sentence