8th Grade Tier III Academic Vocabulary

When the story's plot takes a break and goes back to a different time to help explain something better.

• flashback

• foreshadow

• conflict

• subplot

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

When the story's timeline goes directly in order, without any moments of going back in time or hinting at future things to happen.

• linear plot

• parallel plot

• setting

• subplot

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

This is the reason a character says or does something.

• motivation

• conflict

• characters

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When one story follows two different story lines that don't meet up, but have a connection to the overall story.

• parallel plot

• linear plot

• subplot

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Events are portrayed out of chronological order. Used to mimic the structure are recall of the human memory.

• non linear plot

• linear plot

• subplot

• rising action

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

This is what you call a person who writes a play

• playwrite

• author

• poet

• writer

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

The message of the poem or story

• theme

• moral

• conflict

• main idea

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

a struggle between two opposing forces

• conflict

• climax

• setting

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted

• foreshadow

• flashback

• motivation

• narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the conclusion of the story by the resolving of conflicts between characters

• resolution

• rising action

• falling action

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6