Academic Vocabulary #2 Crossword & Study Guide

The THEME of a story is its:​ ​

• moral, message, or lesson

• main idea

• central idea

• main character

• turning point

Part of a text or story is called a(n) ______________. (Use your Crossword and Study Guide handout for correct spelling!)

Match the following examples of figurative language to their names:

• "I am so hungry I could eat a horse."

• idiom

• "I spilled the beans."

• personification

• "It will take forever to build that new school; you know Rome wasn't built in a day!"

• allusion

• "Yeah I REALLY want to do more homework on a Friday!!"

• Verbal Irony

• "The stars danced in the night sky."

• hyperbole

What a passage or text is mainly about is called a :

• theme

• main idea

• title

• answer

Draw something that represents the meaning of CHRONOLOGICAL. (Anything that shows what the word means!!) *Use your study guide if needed, and this needn't be a masterpiece - just a quick sketch of some sort or symbol(s).)

Another way of saying "main idea" is:

• theme

• central idea

• middle idea

• important idea

Something that means exactly what it says is : ​ (a)   not figurative.

• literal,
• ironic
• fake
• hypothetical

Match the following terms that relate to essays with their definitions or descriptions.

• the first sentence or two that grabs your reader's attention

• Counterclaim

• the claim of someone who is arguing for the opposite of your claim

• rebuttal

• the thesis or main idea of an essay

• indent

• when you press tab at the start of a paragraph to make it stand out

• Claim

• reasons that a counterclaim is false

• hook

The pronouns (words that take the place of names) ​ ________ ​ would be used in a story written in Third Person Point of View.

• he, she and it

• mine

• us

• that

• I

A NARRATIVE is:

• the person telling a story

• the message of a story

• the story itself

• the person who writes the story