Unit 7 Academic Vocabulary (set 1)

a response demonstrated by a character's speech or actions

• mood

• internal response

• metaphor

• external response

a response demonstrated by a character's thoughts or emotions

• external response

• mood

• internal response

• voice

the basic sequence of events in a story that includes the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution

• imagery

• meter

• author's purpose

• plot

a technique by which a plot begins with exposition, follows the chronological order of events, and ends with the resolution

• meter

• nonlinear plot

• linear plot

• stanza

a narrative technique by which a plot is portrayed out of chronological order to achieve a particular effect

• nonlinear
• stanza

• mood

• linear

a specific convention of language or tool used by the author to produce a specific effect or communicate a particular detail or message

• dialogue

• literary device

• plot

• voice

Which one of the following is NOT a literary device?

• repetition and alliteration

• irony

• figurative language

• mood

• foreshadowing

the perspective from which the events in the story are told

• dialogue

• mood

• voice

• point of view

a narrative perspective that is limited to the author or narrator's understanding of only one character's thoughts and feelings and in which the story follows that single character (usually the main character) using third-person pronouns (he, she, they).

• omniscient

• limited

• imagery

• author's purpose

a narrative perspective that includes the thoughts and feelings of all the characters in a story or text using third-person pronouns. This knowledge is not limited by any one character or person's view or behavior as the author or narrator is all knowing

• voice

• limited

• dialogue

• omniscient